Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 2 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 3 | This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ . |
| 4 | THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats . |
| 5 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 6 | One of the most moving is the Common Riding at Selkirk , whose Flodden memorial with its inscription O , Flodden Field recalls the single local survivor who staggered back from the battle with an English standard , now lodged in the town museum . |
| 7 | Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression . |
| 8 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 9 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 10 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 11 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 12 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 13 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 14 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 15 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 16 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |
| 17 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 18 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 20 | The tax is claimed back from the Tax Office by either the college or the Association , or both . |
| 21 | Aberdeen , who bounced back from the disappointment of losing to Rangers with a deserved Cup win over Dundee United on Sunday , are likely to be unchanged . |
| 22 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 23 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |
| 24 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 25 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 26 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 27 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 28 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 29 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 30 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |