Example sentences of "[verb] back in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 4 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 5 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 6 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 7 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 8 | ‘ Cool off , Ruth , ’ he ordered sharply and was about to slam out of the room when her speech came back in a rush and furiously she hit out with her pièce de résistance . |
| 9 | Then everything came back in a wave of anguish and she ducked her head under the water and made herself hold her eyes open until they smarted with pain . |
| 10 | When he came back in a temper sometimes , or been drinking , Cis told me they would put Rich on the kitchen table and tell him to dance . |
| 11 | You came back in a dream . |
| 12 | It came back in a form against which there could be no defence . |
| 13 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 14 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |
| 15 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 16 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 17 | At the RSPCA 's Centenary Conference in Oxford , a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail , unobtrusively dressed in a shirt and slacks , came to the podium . |
| 18 | Women clapped with glee as the princess entered the centre and an elderly woman lying back in a dentist 's chair with her mouth wide open burst into applause as the princess approached . |
| 19 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 20 | and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy . |
| 21 | The jaw hung slightly open and the lips , peeled back in a snarl , displayed two rows of perfect teeth , the pink tip of a tongue , and a mouthful of blood-tinged white froth . |
| 22 | Charlotte hung back in a corner of the room , and let them encircle him with their attentions . |
| 23 | His long hair was tied back in a scarf and he was playing guitar to a whistling song . |
| 24 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 25 | Her long , straight hair was tied back in a bow , and she looked younger and more approachable . |
| 26 | Her wispy grey hair was tied back in a bun , and she wore a cotton housecoat which crossed over at the front and tied at the waist . |
| 27 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 28 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 29 | His hair was slicked back in a manner popular in the ‘ fifties , and his hardbitten face was hardly softened by a neat black moustache of the sort that Herr Hitler had driven out of fashion . |
| 30 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |