Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |