Example sentences of "[vb infin] back from [art] " in BNC.

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1 Instead , they must now battle back from a 2-1 deficit after he punched the Glasgow club 's equaliser into his own net in the first leg of the all-British second round tie .
2 It is the structure of language that creates meaning — analysis can work back from a recognizably meaningful form to discover its structure .
3 To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château .
4 Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria .
5 It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking .
6 We shall take back from the richest 1 per cent .
7 You can easily change back from an improper fraction to a mixed number by dividing the denominator into the numerator and putting the remainder over the denominator .
8 The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil .
9 And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change .
10 ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ .
11 She 'd just come back from a visit home to Germany and was still sad .
12 ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines .
13 ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ .
14 But so many would not come back from the war .
15 Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke .
16 I would often hear from my assistant who now looks after Cher , but at that time was delegated to looking after me , and she would say that she 'd just come back from the MainMan offices and the main office door was closed into DeFries 's inner sanctum and there were raised voices between him and David in there .
17 Friends do n't come back from the dead , Leila thought , rampaging through the corridor from the canteen .
18 Not on your life — I 've been hanging around the set of Bedroom Farce hoping Chris 'll come back from the bar .
19 ‘ Did you come back from the villa specially for me ? ’
20 One day , on his way to do the ploughing , he met a man who 'd just come back from the south and had passed several flocks of sheep on the other side of Chhakuri Lekh .
21 The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox .
22 He can come back from the Moon and help you . ’
23 Once intimate told me : ‘ Now he 'd just come back from the ‘ A ’ tour and his confidence was sky-high when he learned , at second hand as far as I know , that Matthew was going to be vice-captain .
24 let you know they 'll come back from the letters .
25 If you ask me , the good Rabbi Loewe should come back from the dead and sue — ’
26 He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead .
27 Passed on from the ‘ star ’ who 'd come back from the bar
28 So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on
29 It can not climb back from a vertical drop since it lacks the body diameter of the rabbit .
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