Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 2 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 3 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 4 | Everything always seemed to lead back to that place . |
| 5 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 6 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 7 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 8 | In the second half Oxford eased off just for a bit , but when Luton opened fire United hit back with all guns blazing . |
| 9 | Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time . |
| 10 | At the end of the four and half hour inquest the cricket sub-committee was asked to re-define the role of captain and chief coach , to consider whether it required a team manger and ordered to report back on 28 November when , presumably , a decision will also be made on the captaincy for next season . |
| 11 | But North Korea threatened to hit back against any sanctions . |
| 12 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 13 | The group decided to go back to other dreams , other schools like some of those discussed in the earlier chapters of this book . |
| 14 | She decided to travel back to this country and make a fresh start . |
| 15 | I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil . |
| 16 | Continuing that theme , would it not be right to say though that Plato only gave to come back into human form to those people such as philosophers and that most other people would come back as some other form . |
| 17 | Peyton did move back into some degree of opposition ( now called Whig ) contact , and he was involved on the peripheries of the 1682–3 Rye House plot . |
| 18 | After all , he did go back to that church , presumably to ask his God for further and better instructions . ’ |
| 19 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 20 | Both their families were pleased about their plans to marry in September , but John had to go back before any details were discussed . |
| 21 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 22 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 23 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 24 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 25 | It was n't so bad , not after the things Jazzbeaux had seen back in Spanish Fork . |
| 26 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 27 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 28 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 29 | If he wanted to get back to winning ways — his target was a triumph in Toronto — he needed chemical assistance . |