Example sentences of "and [v-ing] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 2 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 3 | This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy . |
| 4 | But at last she was back in her room , and sinking back against the closed door in a grief that was too deep for tears . |
| 5 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 6 | One of these was ‘ war communism ’ , a centralised model based upon commands and coercion and harking back to the militarised society of the civil war years . |
| 7 | Devolution , either from county or district , would mean more local information and reporting back to the relevant authorities by the parish clerk and her assistant . |
| 8 | However , the Mole was still held by Germans , and moving back to the Old Entrance Bob Ryder saw that somebody — a party from an ML ? |
| 9 | And lolling back in the high chair , he promptly fell asleep . |
| 10 | risking their lives and coming back with the whole lot that he collected and brought back again . |
| 11 | He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force . |