Example sentences of "[verb] back [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He staggered back a few steps and , massaging his face , mumbled in complete astonishment to nobody in particular : ‘ He hit me ! ’ |
2 | I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight ! |
3 | He moved back a few paces and , without pausing to think , took a running leap out into the chasm between the two houses . |
4 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
5 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
6 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
7 | The attendant giggled and came back a few minutes later with another bowl of rice and chicken , which Myeloski despatched with his customary enthusiasm . |
8 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
9 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
10 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
11 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
12 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
13 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
14 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
15 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
16 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
17 | The man shuffled back a few paces , bent almost double . |
18 | She stopped , then reversed back a few feet until she could turn into the open gateway . |
19 | Bernice and Defries stepped back a few paces , to where Daak 's shrieking chainsword was slicing a hole in the curved wall . |
20 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
21 | And , even more unexpectedly , change back a few pages later ? |
22 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
23 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
24 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
25 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
26 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
27 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
28 | Go back a few chapters , visit Jesus in Kaburdian and Galilee . |
29 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
30 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |