Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 32 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 33 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 34 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 35 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 36 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 37 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 38 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 39 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 40 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 41 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 42 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 43 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 44 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 45 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 46 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 47 | So , paradoxically , private enterprise in its most unrestricted and anarchic period tended to fall back on the only available models of large-scale management , the military and bureaucratic . |
| 48 | Yet within Whitehall there was a marked reluctance to accept the implications behind such evidence ; officials tended to fall back on the convenient explanation that the ‘ problem evacuees ’ revealed in September 1939 were a product of poor-quality home life among some sections of the working class rather than highly exaggerated cultural differences or poverty . |
| 49 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |