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 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Historic ruins dating back to late 12th Century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ’ . |
| 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 image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 13 | Then , in the light reflected from the snow , he saw Manescu 's dark eyes gazing back at him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | hard men knocking back the brandy , each of us |
| 23 | Forehead white with white eyebrows extending back beyond eye , bill black , white-tipped tail deeply forked . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |
| 27 | Areas found to be at risk include ancient woodlands dating back to the last ice age , internationally rare lowland heaths , meadows and marshes containing many rare species of plants , flowers , animals , birds and insects . |
| 28 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 29 | He said nothing for a moment , watching Blanche with his wide eyes , the black lashes curling back on themselves . |
| 30 | The Government investigations paint a picture of decadent fraud flourishing in a climate of lax controls dating back to the 19th century and policed by professional advisors who paid insufficient attention to the task at hand . |