Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 2 | She had lifted back the veil and looked stunningly beautiful . |
| 3 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 4 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 5 | Oh he 's dropped back a bit . |
| 6 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 7 | Finally , the operator pulled out a small metal box from a rack underneath his desk , deftly flipped back the lid and plugged in the connection . |
| 8 | Men do prefer blondes , she thought , and unconsciously pushed back a strand of her own urchin-cut black hair . |
| 9 | They 've pushed back the boundaries which were limiting the business . |
| 10 | But it was still unreal when he reached out and , bending over her , gently pushed back the wisps of hair that had loosened from beneath her headband . |
| 11 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 12 | I thought of him now — he was called Mike Jarvis and he was a great skateboarder — as the congregation swept up the steps , past me and Mrs Danby , and Pike triumphantly pushed back the curtain to reveal the inner sanctum of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 13 | She took a grip on herself , physically pushed back the dark , claustrophobic horror at the point of drowning . |
| 14 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 15 | ‘ The matter has not been discussed formally by our general committee but our fixtures committee has talked about the possible advantages of the Five Nations championship being moved back a bit . ’ |
| 16 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 17 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 18 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 19 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 20 | After a moment , when her head had settled , muddily , Tabitha slowly turned back the duvet . |
| 21 | Those socialist feminists whose contributions I find most exciting and challenging have drawn back the curtains to expose the contradictions and complexity of desire . |
| 22 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 23 | The Davies ' sold the share to Brent Walker Group , but now with the help of property , hotel and distribution partners have bought back the business . |
| 24 | With that in mind Charity should have firmly handed back the glasses . |
| 25 | He seemed almost disappointed to be handed back the wad of notes . |
| 26 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 27 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 28 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 29 | He pulled back the blankets , peeled back the cotton and rubber sheets and struggled down the ladder with them in his arms . |
| 30 | He stripped his clothes off , peeled back the sheet , and climbed into bed . |