Example sentences of "[adv] back from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's set far enough back from the road , |
| 2 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 3 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 4 | Cameron talked with Minerva , who was being magnanimously tolerant of her husband 's much-publicised affair with Nina Kenyon , and with Anne , who was well into the tertiary stage of her fourth marriage ( to Didier Bishopric , a society restaurateur ) and just back from the Betty Ford clinic after a spell of amphetamine dependency . |
| 5 | at night Dassia is a bustling sort of place with pubs and bars on the main strip , just back from the beach turning on the light , turning up the music and really rocking away . |
| 6 | Enjoying a fantastic location in Kos town , you 'll find the Hotel Catherine set just back from the lively , bustling harbour , right in the centre of town and ideally placed for both the beach and nightlife . |
| 7 | She had aimed to hit him in the eye , what else ; just back from the V.D. clinic . |
| 8 | As the cage descended , Tolonen raised a hand in greeting , but stayed where he was , just back from the others waiting there — maintenance crew , customs men and guards . |
| 9 | Just back from the South of France , Andrew thought jealously — together with York or Doncaster , such jaunts were forbidden pleasures for him , especially now that this new incubus had been fathered on him , all three were beyond possibility . |
| 10 | I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks . |
| 11 | The owner is standing behind Thor , just back from the platform . |
| 12 | Mr Tudor , who farms , near Welshpool , is just back from the big SIAL international food exhibition in Paris . |
| 13 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 14 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 15 | She is just back from the States where she was on-stage singer with the Cincinnati Ballet 's production of the folk ballet ‘ Sergeant Early 's Dream ’ , with musical partners The Chieftains . |
| 16 | He got me out of the stream and a bit further back from the drop to our right . |
| 17 | In the command post further back from the beach , Corporal Williams , the duty radio operator , was decoding a message which had just been received . |
| 18 | The impression given in both plans is of an exceptionally well proportioned and attractive building placed rather further back from the Carrickblacker Road than the present church . |
| 19 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 20 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 21 | In some ways , we 're much further back from the starting line . |
| 22 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 23 | Position this about 12 to 15 inches behind the ball and just outside the line directly back from the target . |
| 24 | So I went to Tesco 's first thing straight back from the nursery and guess what I forgot to do ? |
| 25 | also back from the Olympics is cyclist Steve Farrell … no rest for him though he was on his bike again yesterday trying to defend his title in the Tour of the Cotswolds |
| 26 | Asik rose to his feet and moved slightly back from the road . |
| 27 | It stems right back from the time of Adam and Eve . |
| 28 | Then they pulled them out and , drawing their arms right back from the shoulder , swished them forward through the air until they slapped against the wall . |
| 29 | They were far back from the bar . |
| 30 | The light is quite strongly directional , and to avoid excessive variations in contrast within the depth of the scene you should set the light as far back from the subject as possible within the limits of what is acceptable to give a good exposure , each doubling of the distance reducing the brightness of the scene by a factor of four . |