Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] back from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 2 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 3 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 4 | Sharpe slithered back from the treeline and climbed wearily into the saddle . |
| 5 | God , it was Tessa coming back from the bathroom ! |
| 6 | Every category recorded an improvement and only the South West and East Anglia fell back from the April figures . |
| 7 | The election also marks a further stage in the decline of the manual workers : for example , there would be 13 miners in the new parliamentary Labour Party , against 16 in the old , and 31 in the party Harold Wilson led back from the wilderness in 1964 . |
| 8 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 9 | Patrick stepped back from the door in shock as a tall , broad shouldered man pushed his way in . |
| 10 | Mitch stepped back from the door . |
| 11 | I remember Status Quo 's ‘ Down Down ’ , though , and was disappointed that Cud drew back from an attempt at reproducing Quo 's perfect repetition . |
| 12 | Harry leaned back from the table and considered Minter 's theory . |
| 13 | When Celia got back from the opera , she was pleased to find the flat was empty . |
| 14 | THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats . |
| 15 | Dysart turned back from the desk smiling broadly . |
| 16 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 17 | The Michelin Guide to the Côte de l'Atlantique says that this eerie and impressive cavern , which communicates by a passage through the cliff to the château on the summit , was probably made in the twelfth century to shelter the relics of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem brought back from a Crusade by Pierre II of Castillon , who at that time held the château . |
| 18 | Nicolo pushed back from the table and got to his feet . |
| 19 | Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression . |
| 20 | At midday , Chola , Mina and Kāli came back from the fields to prepare the food for the evening . |
| 21 | Charles was looking at a film still of Banks in one of his most famous roles as the captain of a doomed frigate , when Dottie came back from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne . |
| 22 | Kate came back from the kitchen and the ghosts cringed back into their corners . |
| 23 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 24 | Ruane turned back from the door . |
| 25 | Finally convinced Seb knew nothing , Boz stepped back from the ladder . |
| 26 | D'Arcy stood back from the patient and lit himself a small cigar . |
| 27 | MATTHEW HOWE standing back from the road nearby is thought to date from between 1665 and 1700 . |
| 28 | Early in 1919 Thorne reported back from a meeting between local ILP and NSP branches : |
| 29 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |
| 30 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |