Example sentences of "[verb] back at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 2 | So do n't come back at me with any crap about my specific orders . |
| 3 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 4 | McDunn glances back at me before stopping at the phone and nodding down at it . |
| 5 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 6 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 7 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 8 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 9 | ‘ What is it ? ’ she asked , looking back at him as if forcing herself to meet his eyes . |
| 10 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 11 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 12 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 13 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 14 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 15 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 16 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 17 | When I turned to look back at him after a short canter , he was winded and scared with barely enough strength to stay on his horse . |
| 18 | And then you look back at it in 1992 and there it is . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Get back at me for what ? |
| 21 | Guido was already heading down the corridor towards his own room , but he stopped suddenly and glanced back at her across his shoulder . |
| 22 | This is your way of getting back at me for Emerson . ’ |
| 23 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 24 | He screams back at her to be still . |
| 25 | Now that quote is flung back at him with every interview he gives . |
| 26 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 27 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 28 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 29 | Fiver gazed back at him with eyes that , like a fly 's , seemed larger than his head . |
| 30 | But there was a numb place deep inside , a place he 'd created with his cruelly scathing words , and she gazed back at him with something near loathing as he walked away towards the stairs . |