Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sandrat felt the old skills coming back . |
| 2 | I it took us three and a half hours coming back from Swansea . |
| 3 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 4 | It has historical connections going back many centuries , as early as the reign of Athelstan ( AD 925–940 ) ; it was the property of the church of St John of Beverley . |
| 5 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 6 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 7 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 8 | The displays include scientific instruments dating back to the 16th century , a comprehensive collection of early chemical apparatus , watches and clocks , medical instruments , the original penicillin apparatus and Einstein 's blackboard . |
| 9 | Even Nutty could see what an apathetic beast he was , and her heart contracted suddenly at the thought of their four stupid old horses going back to the knacker 's . |
| 10 | Historic ruins dating back to late 12th Century . |
| 11 | He makes a convincing case for links of various sorts and degrees between West European countries going back as much as 5,000 years , but his thesis has one weakness . |
| 12 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 13 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 14 | Then , in the light reflected from the snow , he saw Manescu 's dark eyes gazing back at him . |
| 15 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 16 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 17 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 18 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 19 | The secretary of the association , Kenny Ferguson , said : ‘ We have official documents dating back to 1772 which prove that the Clyde Port Authority had no right to sell the land to Scottish Enterprise . |
| 20 | Anwar suggests that immigration from Pakistan takes the form of a chain , with early settlers reporting back on their experiences and encouraging others , particularly family and friends , to follow them . |
| 21 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 22 | Results suggest that symptoms due to DGR may be related to the sensitivity of the gastric lining as well as the amounts of duodenal contents flowing back into the stomach . |
| 23 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 24 | The break that Pound thus makes , not just with Hardy and James ( his two acknowledged mentors — one English , one American ) , but with a succession of revered masters reaching back to Virgil , is momentous . |
| 25 | hard men knocking back the brandy , each of us |
| 26 | Forehead white with white eyebrows extending back beyond eye , bill black , white-tipped tail deeply forked . |
| 27 | It favoured a more voluntaristic conception of human action — a need to see human beings fighting back against an oppressive state , and capable of making things happen . |
| 28 | From above , this is a surreal sight — a dozen Canutes holding back a flesh ocean . |
| 29 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 30 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |