Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war |
| 2 | An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 . |
| 3 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 4 | He pressed , just hard enough , and drew back from the falling man . |
| 5 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 6 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 7 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 8 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 9 | Only by trying to stand back from the daily grind and reviewing one 's long term goals can such opposition be slowly undermined . |
| 10 | The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance . |
| 11 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 12 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 13 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 14 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 15 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 16 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 17 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 18 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 19 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 20 | Jimmy pulled the girl away with him , moving back from the outside wall , and the boards ; four feet above them at ground level . |
| 21 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 22 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 23 | Set back from the main road , the Lagant enjoys a centrally situated location , with all the village amenities within easy reach . |
| 24 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |
| 25 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Gabbiano is personally run with pride by the Mirandola family . |
| 26 | Dowd stepped back from the dying man as if slapped . |
| 27 | Peggy stepped back from the old woman . |
| 28 | Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face . |
| 29 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 30 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |