Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 2 | What The Smiths were about was narcissism , damaged , exploding back with a defiant fantasy of martyrdom . |
| 3 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |
| 4 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 5 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 6 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 7 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 8 | The sound , in itself small , was magnified by the lofty roof , and startled him painfully , and he drew back with a bounding heart into the shadows of the triforium as a man stepped into the church . |
| 9 | When he decided he had finished he drew back with a reluctant groan , his eyes watchful , devoid of any feeling other than the insatiable one of sexual hunger . |
| 10 | Was that why John drew back from a closer relationship ? |
| 11 | Convinced that the Chinese communists were supplying the Vietcong ( Communist guerrillas of South Vietnam ) , the Eisenhower administration increased its aid to Diem and sent several hundred " advisers " to organize the army of South Vietnam , though the President drew back from a full commitment of US forces . |
| 12 | Although most Labour activists drew back from a direct challenge to the Coalition Government , the victory of two independent left candidates in by-elections in the spring of 1942 increased pressures on the Party to abandon its adherence to the electoral truce . |
| 13 | I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal . |
| 14 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 15 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 16 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 17 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 18 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
| 19 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 20 | The old bill that bounced back like a bad penny . |
| 21 | BORIS BECKER bounced back from a poor spell with a 7–6 , 6–3 victory over world No 1 Jim Courier in the quarter-finals of the Paris Open yesterday . |
| 22 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 23 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 24 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 25 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 26 | He is expecting City to come back with a bigger offer . |
| 27 | Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser . |
| 28 | ‘ The Shiah , for example , or at least the ones in Iran , believe that the Twelfth Imam — who disappeared in mysterious circumstances over a thousand years ago — is going to come back with a huge army and take over the world . ’ |
| 29 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 30 | Would he like to come back on a quieter ‘ induction day ’ ? |