Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 2 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 3 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 4 | I picked her up from the hospital on my way back from a meeting on Kowloon-side . |
| 5 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |
| 7 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 8 | Bless him , he went away with the promise of a full sitting when I 'd got my face back from the cleaners . |
| 9 | I went to see the Postmistress and she said I 've known you all my life , so start work on Monday morning because , you see , it was so quick and I had n't got my references back from the Railway Company but that 's what she said er I can start work on Monday morning . |
| 10 | At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture . |
| 11 | Tabitha sat up fast , jerking her hips back from the snarling Perk . |
| 12 | I could see she wanted to leave and soon she pushed her chair back from the table and stood up to leave . |
| 13 | ‘ Nico 's Dream ’ is a fine example of this , where a sampled fragment of the late ice queen 's vocal is caught in a metal mesh of shifting sound that , for a fleeting moment , brings her spirit back from the dead . |
| 14 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 15 | In May 1806 , Lewis and Clark re-entered the Nez Perce homeland , on their journey back from the Pacific . |
| 16 | ‘ Although we have wasted money on Taurus , this is an ideal opportunity for firms to wrest control of their destiny back from the Exchange , ’ said one . |
| 17 | They would call in for a glass of beer on their way back from a shift . |
| 18 | Both women were killed on the M4 near Swindon in the early hours of saturday morning on their way back from a show . |
| 19 | But it was Johnson who so nearly turned the game in the second period as Giants clawed their way back from an aggregate deficit of 16 points at 46-37 behind . |
| 20 | If they had bothered to get off their bums and ask some questions , they would have discovered that the pub in question was a regular haunt of the Parsons , who went there for lunch every Saturday on their way back from the supermarket . |
| 21 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |
| 22 | Otherwise- so quick had been the retreat through the Residency , the men fighting their way back from the hospital and across the yard would find themselves outflanked and unable to reach the connecting trench . |
| 23 | The older chalets have had facelifts , their corrugated iron roofs replaced by red pantiles , whitewashed boundary walls topped off by yet more red pantiles to give them a Mediterranean resort flavour in hopes of luring their customer back from the real thing . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey yesterday threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is on its way back from the slump . |
| 25 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey today threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is on its way back from the slump . |
| 26 | She would be on her way back from a reading at the weekend and passing through London . |
| 27 | The loco , who was on her way back from a three-months-long loan spell at the Battlefield Line in Market Bosworth , also shunted at the Colliery , currently producing 30,000 tonnes of power station rail-borne coal every week . |
| 28 | Loopy Lil got stuck in a drift on her way back from the farm with the milk . |
| 29 | Every now and again they checked its progress , tilting their faces back from the heat as they reached into the core of the fire . |
| 30 | Mary 's father was frosty with her because she did n't have an abortion , right up until she brought her son back from the hospital . |