Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 2 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 3 | The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time . |
| 4 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 5 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 6 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 7 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 8 | There was a faint rattle and a metallic clink from high above and Grant sank back into a crouch , waiting with baited breath to see if the slight noise had alerted anyone . |
| 9 | Valerie Cass sank back into a chair as if she had been slapped . |
| 10 | Fael-Inis regarded the Lad quite coolly , and at length he said in an amused voice , ‘ So , jackal , we face one another again , and fight for a soul , ’ and the Lad drew back with a snarl , his eyes showing red . |
| 11 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 12 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 13 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 14 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 15 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 16 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 17 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 18 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 19 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 20 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 21 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 22 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 23 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 24 | ‘ One way to get some good blood in the family , ’ Yanto shouted back with a grin , and gave them the well-known two fingered salute . |
| 25 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 26 | Retail group GUS followed the market mood , climbing back from a 25p fall to end 12p higher at 1630p . |
| 27 | Then , in Sunday 's second round , which was incorporated in the Basingstoke M.C. Club 's March Hare trial near Newbury , Dismore bounced back with a win . |
| 28 | After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants |
| 29 | Some Obligation bounced back from a season in the doldrums with a five-length win at Hereford last month and is capable of following up . |
| 30 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |