Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 2 | Her black eyes were bright , her lips curled back in a fearsome snarl that dribbled saliva and left her tongue hanging . |
| 3 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 4 | When Kit , informed by his scout that the enemy was present , gave the first order to fire , the soft promise of the light burst into flame ; the vanguard of the islanders fell back from the English muskets . |
| 5 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 6 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 7 | From spring 1878 onwards , several small groups of these homesick exiles straggled back to the Lapwai Reservation . |
| 8 | The colours changed back to the traditional , the ball from white to red , the pads and clothing from kaleidoscopic to white , there were no floodlights , the pitches and outfield were hard and bare and the temperature consistently in the low 30s celsius . |
| 9 | The echo of the twin motors crackled back from the nearby buildings like the sound of a battle-tank firing up for action . |
| 10 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 11 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 12 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 13 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 14 | As the officers leaped back to the other ships to spread the plan , Farquhar whispered privately to him , ‘ But if the fighting men are there — ‘ |
| 15 | Although most Labour activists drew back from a direct challenge to the Coalition Government , the victory of two independent left candidates in by-elections in the spring of 1942 increased pressures on the Party to abandon its adherence to the electoral truce . |
| 16 | The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers , so far out of their element . |
| 17 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 18 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 19 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 20 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 21 | The two girls walked back down the salmon-coloured path towards the house , each with a bouquet of vine leaves . |
| 22 | But ten minutes later Scottish broke back with the only try of the game … |
| 23 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 24 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 25 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 26 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |
| 27 | But I 'm a wage-earner myself , you know , now , ’ she said , and her thoughts travelled back to the past month , when she had eked out their very slender resources by taking out a couple of children every afternoon . |