Example sentences of "[noun] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we go again , ’ said Bodie , as he put the Capri in gear and slid smoothly out into the traffic flow , taking up a surveillance position four cars back from the battered , blue van . |
| 2 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 3 | You may find when you have the reply back from the employer that you have to suspend unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 5 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 6 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 7 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 8 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 9 | Crash girl back from the dead |
| 10 | If the two pairs of projectors are in line , the intention is not usually a multi-image effect In fact , it s likely that the two projectors nearer to the camera will not contain so much an image as an image-blocker , ie a mask or matte that blocks out part of the image behind it Since the two mattes will normally be complementary , and the combined image can be seen by inspection through the camera 's viewfinder , any faults , such as overlaps or gaps , should be observed at the time and , if possible , corrected on a second , third or fourth take This is more economical and satisfactory than getting the results of multiple passes back from the lab and discovering that a whole day 's work has to be redone . |
| 11 | Right from the kick-off Hove took the game to Haslemere and only excellent defence held the visitors back from the line . |
| 12 | But if the DoE decides that the council has acted unreasonably , the developer may claim costs back from the council . |
| 13 | Tabitha sat up fast , jerking her hips back from the snarling Perk . |
| 14 | Draw battlefield nuclear weapons back from the front line . |
| 15 | Out of this , forms emerge , solidify , and then disintegrate again as the spectator turns his attention back from the individual forms to the painting as a whole . |
| 16 | Apparently , Ray pulled the fish back from the dead , anaesthetising it on the bank , trimming back rotted fins and administering an antibiotic injection . |
| 17 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do you bring a dead body back from the grave ? ’ |
| 19 | Winterbotham , a future mastermind of the ‘ Ultra ’ miracle that decoded wartime German communications , naturally reporting his chilling discoveries back from the Reich to the minions of MacDonald , Baldwin and Chamberlain . |
| 20 | He pulls his foreskin back from the great bruised rose . |
| 21 | When the full force of competition hits , it is desperately hard to recover your company , set the new tempo that is required , and seize the initiative back from the . |
| 22 | During this time , the dealer had hired a lawyer who successfully claimed the picture back from the Gemäldegalerie ; relations were strained between East and West Germany , and , according to the dealer , ‘ There was no interest from the DDR ’ . |
| 23 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 24 | Of course it was Roger Rabbit who , last year , brought animated feature films back from the dead . |
| 25 | When he drew the curtain back from the windows , he was smiling . |
| 26 | The train slid out of Winnipeg on time at eight-twenty and I put all my energies and attention into being an unexceptional and adequate waiter , even though always conscious of the ominous presence in the aisle seat , facing forward , three tables back from the kitchen end . |
| 27 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 28 | Customs ' spokesman John Barber said that excise verification teams in East Anglia had been investigating people who brought goods back from the Continent and sold them . |
| 29 | In the starkest expression so far of the choice he believes the country faces tomorrow , the Labour leader launched an 11th-hour appeal to bring the Health Service back from the brink of destruction . |
| 30 | Cos we used to have like this minibus service back from the Guild |