Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 4 | Gilbert finally stood back from the portable machine on the floor . |
| 5 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 6 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 7 | But I often went back to the other , greener side of the island . |
| 8 | The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement . |
| 9 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 10 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 11 | His scream echoed madly inside the tunnel as he fell was slammed against the brickwork then bounced back against the speeding train , his body pulped by the impact . |
| 12 | He waved to show he was all right , then swam back to the floating machine , still laughing . |
| 13 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 14 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 15 | The method used to achieve this could be called a filtering technique for , by analogy with the process of filtering as used in the chemistry laboratory , a particular part of a mixture ( the edges or boundaries ) was isolated and then added back to the original image to give Figure 5.14 . |
| 16 | Look amused , she suspected as they crunched up the crumbling steps , peered through a railing , and then retreated back to the small quay . |
| 17 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 18 | The pendulum then swung back to the other extreme where almost no grammar was taught , but all the emphasis was on talking , using conversations in which grammatical structures occurred in an uncontrolled way . |
| 19 | The older industrial regions of the North , North-West , and Yorkshire and Humberside enhanced their population shares during the nineteenth century then fell back in the twentieth . |
| 20 | A rosy cheeked , double chinned girl answered , with such confidence that Joy almost fell back onto the shiny , checked floor . |
| 21 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 22 | I hesitated , then went back for the indigo wrap . |
| 23 | Then went back into the outer cellar . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man . |
| 25 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 26 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 27 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 28 | In 1943 , however , Baldwin again switched back to the economic motive . |
| 29 | I never went back during the military period . |
| 30 | When the ruler first came in contact with Millie 's knuckles she actually cried back at the startled sister , ‘ Do n't do that ! |