Example sentences of "[vb pp] back in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 2 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 3 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 4 | John asked , lips drawn back in a sarcastic sneer . |
| 5 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 6 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 7 | She wondered how much Nicolo Sabatini would value her if he saw as she preferred to be , wearing faded jeans , a cotton turtleneck pullover , and grungy running shoes , her hair loose and straight or , at the most , drawn back in a French braid . |
| 8 | For a long time he remained motionless like this , his body arched backward , his teeth clenched , his lips drawn back in a silent rictus of ecstatic agony . |
| 9 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 10 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 11 | Thus , in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew — a unique example of a play outside the play , not to be taken as a measure by which the rest of the play must be dismissed for lacking seriousness — the tinker Christopher Sly , brought back in a drunken stupor to the house of a mischievous lord , is deceived into thinking that he is really a gentleman . |
| 12 | I think the answer is to be found back in the basic theory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its strong stubborn wings were swept back in a magnificent curve . |
| 15 | Her black hair was swept back in the careless style that only the most expensive hairdressing can give . |
| 16 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 17 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 18 | In spite of the growing success , there was still never any spare cash as profits were endlessly ploughed back in the unremitting quest for newer , more powerful machinery . |
| 19 | Daine had been caught and convicted back in the real world . |
| 20 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 21 | The molecules are consequently held back in the liquid phase and the vapour pressure is lower . |