Example sentences of "[noun] set back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to tug her arm away , but he ignored her struggles , leading her into a small , plush-carpeted room furnished simply with a desk and bookcase , a couple of armchairs , and a long , padded couch set back along one wall . |
| 2 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 3 | Beyond the sitting room , a large area with an old brick fireplace set back in a spacious alcove , piles of cut logs flanking it , a narrow passage led to the kitchen and a small study . |
| 4 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 5 | It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick . |
| 6 | Julius 's face set back into implacable lines . |
| 7 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 8 | She followed the boy to a house set back in a palm-lined road , which was light years away from the urchin 's poverty-stricken background . |