Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG soccer star has battled back from serious injury to the brink of major success . |
| 2 | Wings Jeff Hurford and Scott MacKinnon each had a second-half try as Rugby Canada came storming back from 15–0 to 15–13 with outside-half Rob Ross , who provided a penalty and a conversion , just unable to land one more penalty for a long-awaited victory . |
| 3 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 4 | He never really expected to hear back from either of them . |
| 5 | She felt her mind draw back from that proposition . |
| 6 | In fact , as an eminent Scottish banker remarked looking back from seven years on , it was remarkable , " after the first surprise and alarm was over , how quietly the country submitted , as they still do , to transact all business by means of bank notes for which the issuers give no specie " . |
| 7 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 8 | Possibly , they might not have come back from that either . |
| 9 | World No 8 Wilkinsonfrom Kirkby-in-Ashfield , went down 9-7 to stablemate Martin Clark , having fought back from 8-4 . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ On top of all his talent , to have come back from such a serious injury and regain his best form is supremely brave . |
| 11 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 12 | And the former Rangers and Aston Villa winger said : ‘ We 've come back from this kind of position before and we are optimistic we can get a result . |
| 13 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 14 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 15 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 16 | ‘ They are now trying to draw back from earlier opinions , but this does not change my opinion of them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , I 've pulled back from that . |
| 18 | Indeed , the understrength Lithuanians , who had fought back from two down to get their first Group Three point in Belfast , could have inflicted similar embarrassment on the Republic . |
| 19 | Paul Maynard , skipping an all Essex County rink of Andrew Blake , Steve Cooper and Andrew Skilbeck , had fought back from 7–1 and 18–10 down to be two shots ahead . |
| 20 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 21 | By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . |
| 22 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 23 | The President has been widely advised to fall back from multi-front legislative conflicts in favour of one major fight at a time . |