Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled in triumph , making her wide-set green eyes squeeze back into their thick black fringe of lashes . |
| 2 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 3 | Cheeks dripping white , the kids walk back to the car , happy and contented . |
| 4 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |
| 5 | How long can it remain immune as the voices echo back from Eastern Europe ? . |
| 6 | The quicker these kids get back to school . |
| 7 | Hormones pass back to the pituitary gland , regulating its sexual function . |
| 8 | Three sets of lights later , they came into the town centre , a wide boulevard that sloped up a hill with the shops and offices set back from the pavement . |
| 9 | Dark brown eyes stare back at him . |
| 10 | She saw his hands relax , and the broad shoulders lean back in the chair . |
| 11 | He jabbed the Englishman twice in the ribs again , watched him fight to control the pain , watched his victim 's eyes drift back into focus . |
| 12 | Her lips curl back from her teeth with pleasure . |
| 13 | The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity . |
| 14 | Some of those warning signals relate back to criminal convictions . |
| 15 | The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg . |
| 16 | That 's lovely when the hens come back into full flush like this |
| 17 | Keyence 's salesmen report back to the research department on what new machines their customers would find useful . |
| 18 | Each is tempted to act as a free rider : if other countries cut back on atmospheric pollution , everyone will enjoy the benefit . |
| 19 | As the black lines creep back through the newly faced walls |
| 20 | The end of the Gulf War , and the bodies of 3 soldiers who lost their lives arrive back in England . |
| 21 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 22 | Her regents stride back to the foothills ; |
| 23 | Its origins go back to 1970 when a specially commissioned task force of the National Heart and Lung Institute ( as it then was ) , was asked to look into the feasibility of a trial which would settle , once and for all , the question of whether dietary change could , on its own , reduce the frequency of heart attacks in the American population . |
| 24 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 25 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Its origins go back to 1939 when , due to the clouds of War , a decision was taken to remove the majority of Army Ordnance stores from Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard to a new Army Depot to be built at Donnington in Shropshire . |
| 27 | The actual yeoman costumes date back to the 1940s . |
| 28 | Experiments in Paris involving transmission by telephone lines date back to 1881 , but it needed the technology of the 1930s to record two channels with adequate fidelity , synchronization and separation . |
| 29 | You know that when birds are chicks in nest , they gape , their little mouths open wide , like this , and they , whenever the parents come back to the nest , wi with a worm or something , you see the little chicks , their little mouths wide open , they kind of reach out of the nest and , and , and try to their feeding . |
| 30 | The ASB is conducting research at the moment into whether a permanent diminution could be measured , a solution Mr Garner says he could ‘ live with' , but if that can not be successfully implemented , he hopes that TI 's method will be the one companies fall back on . |