Example sentences of "[vb past] back on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina sank back on the comfortable couch . |
| 2 | We then suggested that people create small groups in which individual responses could be gathered together and discussed before the chosen spokesperson reported back on the collective view . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 5 | They came back on the Northern Line , a tall handsome man in a long overcoat and a man whose face was mostly hidden by an upturned collar and a hat pulled well down . |
| 6 | The poignant music drifted into the coffee-house , and Meredith settled back on the Victorian chair to enjoy it and her surroundings . |
| 7 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |
| 8 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 9 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 10 | She eased back on the twin-power throttles and pushed the mixture and prop levers fully forward . |
| 11 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 13 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 14 | She looked back on the whole expanse of land |
| 15 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 16 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 17 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 18 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 19 | Jean-Paul lay back on the silken divans and closed his eyes . |
| 20 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 21 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 22 | Ronni sighed and lay back on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread . |
| 23 | Celia fell back on the only excuse she felt able to make . |
| 24 | She lost her balance and fell back on the old iron bedstead , pulling the old woman off her feet . |
| 25 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 26 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 27 | He leaned back on the padded headboard and smiled at Shelley . |
| 28 | ‘ A Practical Revivalist ’ wrote back on the same day . |
| 29 | He chopped back on the right engine , closed it down . |