Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 2 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 3 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 5 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 6 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 7 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 8 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 9 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 10 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 11 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 12 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 13 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 14 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 15 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 16 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 17 | In a moment , the monster rose , lurching slightly , and started to head back for the dark tower . |
| 18 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 19 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 20 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 21 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 22 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 23 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 24 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 25 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 26 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 27 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 28 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 29 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 30 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |