Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she visited the hostels and goodwill centres or was out on the soup run distributing food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London , the caring side of her nature came fully into play : " I think something of my mother came back into me . " |
| 2 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 3 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 4 | The noise of their progress floated back to where Paige and Travis lay hidden for many minutes , before fading away completely . |
| 5 | She was still so entranced by the timeless atmosphere of their night-time sail back round the island that it was strange to hear Lucy 's familiar voice on the telephone that night . |
| 6 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 7 | The truck climbed steeply , the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest . |
| 8 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Fully restored flour mill with much of its machinery dating back to 1730 . |
| 10 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 11 | Then the sound of her voice echoed back in memory to frighten her . |
| 12 | The muscles under her eyelids clenched , and the skin on the bone of her forehead moved back like the hood of a snake . |
| 13 | I had almost reached the kitchen doorway when I heard the furious sounds of her footsteps coming back towards me again . |
| 14 | The author was Mary Shelley , wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , but very little of her life comes back to memory . |
| 15 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked , in tones so terrifying that all four of her pupils shrank back against the wall . |
| 16 | His voice was drained of emotion , his eyes lustreless , as Dexter imagined the memory of her body floating back into his mind . |
| 17 | The pages of her book stared back at her . |
| 18 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 19 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 20 | We wait in anticipation of his future coming back to earth . |
| 21 | His final resting place alongside 19 generations of his family dating back before the Norman conquest . |
| 22 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 23 | After all , as he had said — and now every word of our conversation came back to me as clearly as if played back on a tape — a woman has a right to decide , on the basis of her own capacity to cope with the situation , whether she is justified in going on with it . |