Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 HP BITES BACK AT SUN 's CARROT …
2 Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work .
3 Georgina sank back in Ivor 's chair .
4 Ashton looks back to Petipa 's more formal style because it is suitable for Mendelssohn 's music .
5 At level weight today it will be a different story and the ball looks back in Katabatic 's court .
6 An amount of Tennent 's Lager is then added back into Tennent 's L.A. to bring the alcoholic strength up to 0.9% vol to give it body .
7 Shelley drew back from Miguel 's hungry mouth .
8 Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face .
9 She has come back with Hywel 's dinner .
10 He 's just come back from Belize erm , and he 's they 're , they 're posted to Germany and they leave tomorrow .
11 MILLWALL bounced back from Saturday 's defeat at Twerton Park , thanks to a blistering four-goal first half burst .
12 Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially .
13 The harsh central neon light glared down onto the contours of the sheeting , and gouged back at Erlich 's eyes from the white-tiled walls .
14 Mr do you want to come back on Mr 's comment about traffic flows ?
15 I hope I 'm right to come back to Benedict 's .
16 So I came to Walsall again , when I left Walsall I never wanted to , to come back to Walsall er because of two reasons .
17 Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance .
18 Athelstan wandered back to Philippa 's chamber but it was deserted .
19 Her gaze wandered back to Marcus 's .
20 The England one-day expert hit an unbeaten 65 as Lancashire reached only 218 for six off their allotted 55 overs after they had been pegged back by Leicester 's lively attack .
21 The routines play on that , looking back to Margi 's life in Kirkby : poverty , religion , sex and the dole queue are all part of the equation .
22 ‘ John ? ’ the woman said , looking back at Artemis 's father .
23 Omi looked steadily at Erika for a long moment , and looking back into Omi 's fine , hooded eyes , Erika sensed for the first time ever , not merely that Omi was an old woman who walked rather slowly , was glad of help in undressing , and who , on days when her arthritis was very bad , needed her meat cutting for her .
24 Looking back over Pearson 's historical review , it is hard to believe that Britain 's cities are any more perilous today than those of pre-industrial times , or when they were frequented by gangs of Garotters and Hooligans .
25 A little colour came back into Busacher 's face .
26 Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram .
27 The recurring line of Sybil 's poem came back to Melissa 's mind , the poem about dead flowers that she had written in memory of a beautiful girl , savagely cut down .
28 The marriage ended because of her husband 's drink problem so June came back to Mud 's house at Neptune with her two children and went back to work as a dance instructor , at Arthur Murray 's highly popular dance centre in New York .
29 After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’
30 The smile came back to Ellwood 's face .
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