Example sentences of "[verb] back in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer threatened to be an anti-climax , given that the device had been previewed back in 1991 ( CI No 1,653 ) . |
| 2 | We had the Roskill report back in 1986 . |
| 3 | To remove , score the past with a knife and peel back in one layer . |
| 4 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 5 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 6 | XVT , which first surfaced back in 1989 , is probably the most mature of what is now a growing bunch of tools offering a single developers toolkit for multiple graphical user interfaces — competitors include Neuron Data 's Open Interface and Open Inc 's Aspect . |
| 7 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 8 | During the late spring and summer of 1937 the revolution was well and truly rolled back in two of its former strongholds : Catalonia , which ceased to be autonomous within Republican Spain , and Aragon , where the CNT-dominated Council of Aragon was physically destroyed by Communist forces . |
| 9 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 10 | The state is to be rolled back in some areas and rolled forward in others … |
| 11 | We are being trained to stand back in humble awe from the work of nature , and not to interpose our alien human values . |
| 12 | But one of the great ironies of the second world war was that the freedom and democracy that was won back in Western Europe was largely paid for by the blood of Russians . |
| 13 | But I want you to come back in four weeks . |
| 14 | And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 15 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 16 | Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time . |
| 17 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 18 | Erm I still have to come back in some ways Patrick to er this this no car situation . |
| 19 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 20 | The first Bentley was built back in nineteen nineteen and sold in nineteen twenty-two . |
| 21 | Tom used to go white and silent at first , and then end up shouting back in sheer self-defence . ’ |
| 22 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 23 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 24 | Another possibility is the fifty-seven year-old Bolognese art historian Renato Barilli who co-curated a Biennale show back in 1972 . |
| 25 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 26 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 27 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 28 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |
| 29 | He came back in 31 . |
| 30 | Came back in twenty one . |