Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 2 | She said nothing , but only arched back against the soft leather , lost in the tantalising , agonising pleasure of his hands — a pleasure that lit a fire deep inside her , but did nothing to quench it . |
| 3 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 4 | They seemed , Spruce thought , to be extremely laid back about the whole affair . |
| 5 | The smoke and steam was being sucked from the wreck by the storm wind anyway , and as it cleared Duvall suddenly shrank back from the shattered car window . |
| 6 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 7 | So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may . |
| 8 | In spite of the growing success , there was still never any spare cash as profits were endlessly ploughed back in the unremitting quest for newer , more powerful machinery . |
| 9 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 10 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 11 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 12 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 13 | Er right , just going back to the actual er roadside interview , is that one on the the B road , or is it the A ? |
| 14 | Staff tried to put the fire out themselves , but were soon driven back by the intense heat and thick smoke given off from burning tyres . |
| 15 | Clouthier 's policies were frequently ill-defined but they nevertheless brought back into the political debate conservative ideas that had been scorned since the 1917 Mexican revolution . |
| 16 | Then she checked her appearance in the mirror , objectively staring back at the exquisite reflection , the shining flaxen hair , the huge dark eyes , the full mouth . |
| 17 | And whether it 's electronics or physics or maths or anything else , erm when you get to the point where you 're dividing by zero , you have to say well now we leave the , the mathematical model , and we just go back to the common sense model . |
| 18 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 19 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 20 | Gilbert finally stood back from the portable machine on the floor . |
| 21 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 22 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 23 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 24 | Imhotep had a chapel at the temple of Isis at Philae and was also linked with the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu , which had replaced a much earlier temple at the site , possibly dating back to the Old Kingdom . |
| 25 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 26 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 27 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Now is the best time , ’ Athelstan replied , drawing closer , whispering into Sir John 's ear , conscious that Lady Maude was totally absorbed in the pageant before her whilst Benedicta , distracted , was still staring back at the admiring gallant . |
| 29 | I wondered if people would ever go back to the old ways . |
| 30 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |