Example sentences of "[v-ing] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 32 | and the comments I 'm getting back from the er the clients are very very favourable . |
| 33 | She eased her sticking back from the car seat up to a cafe where a boy with slanting eyes and a towel tied round his waist wiped a table clean for them , then shook a filthy cloth over it with a flourish . |
| 34 | He flicked the light on , and the greenish glow reflecting back from the tiled interior showed it to be empty of human occupation . |
| 35 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 36 | Practise this also in reverse mode , stepping back from the attack and simultaneously moving out of line . |
| 37 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 38 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 39 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 40 | Stepping back from the autopsy she was performing , Dr Ingrid Karnstein unfolded the paper to read the message . |
| 41 | Stepping back from the hurly-burly of political combat , I suppose all the tussles of the last 15 years have been about weaning our politicians off the romance of a benevolent , let alone competent , state . |
| 42 | Both are under the greatest attack from a government committed to drawing back from the welfare state . |
| 43 | He was travelling back from a gig in the band 's van when the argument broke out . |
| 44 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 45 | Good idea about 606 , I ca n't do it though I 'll be travelling back from the game ! |
| 46 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 47 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 48 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 49 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 50 | I am writing to congratulate Steffi Graf on her win at Brighton as she displayed her tremendous strength by coming back from a set and 2–4 down in the second to win 5–7 6–4 6–1 , and lift the title for a record 5th time . |
| 51 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 52 | Recently my wife and I had to travel from Holyhead to Aberystwyth when coming back from a funeral in Ireland . |
| 53 | The women died when their hired Astra crashed into the back of an army convoy coming back from a show in the early hours . |
| 54 | McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body . |
| 55 | When he saw us coming back from the movies every Sunday , discussing the film , he would say , ‘ I do n't believe it . |
| 56 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 57 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |
| 58 | A few of the women , coming back from the shore , were drawn in by Mairi 's screaming . |
| 59 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 60 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |