Example sentences of "[verb] back in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remove , score the past with a knife and peel back in one layer . |
| 2 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 3 | He carries only nine pounds more than in 1992 and despite being plagued by a wind problem since that success , has come back in great style after being ‘ tubed . ’ |
| 4 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 5 | The state is to be rolled back in some areas and rolled forward in others … |
| 6 | We are being trained to stand back in humble awe from the work of nature , and not to interpose our alien human values . |
| 7 | But one of the great ironies of the second world war was that the freedom and democracy that was won back in Western Europe was largely paid for by the blood of Russians . |
| 8 | But I want you to come back in four weeks . |
| 9 | And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 10 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 11 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |
| 12 | Jasper Carrott and Hale and Pace did impromptu performances — and everyone there pledged to come back in two years ' time . |
| 13 | Erm I still have to come back in some ways Patrick to er this this no car situation . |
| 14 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 15 | Tom used to go white and silent at first , and then end up shouting back in sheer self-defence . ’ |
| 16 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 17 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 18 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 19 | DAVID and best man Chris Cowdrey , bouncing back in fine form from the rip-roarer on Alderney ( right ) |
| 20 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 21 | It was n't so bad , not after the things Jazzbeaux had seen back in Spanish Fork . |
| 22 | She stretched experimentally , wincing as various parts of her ached in a way which brought the experiences of the night flooding back in full force . |
| 23 | First , the pressures on teachers involved in innovation to revert back in traditional content and methods are strong . |
| 24 | Now you 're gon na get on and read it and you can report back in ten minutes and I do n't want any questions . |
| 25 | Four smaller establishments had been recently returned , whilst the huge Clark Field air base — which was severely damaged by the June eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano [ see p. 38294 ] — was handed back in late November . |
| 26 | I 'm going back in three days . ’ |
| 27 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 28 | She said Brightness , who arrived back in Laspi Bay at 5am yesterday , was lively and eating well , but very thin , after fending for himself , since he escaped from an aquarium last year . |
| 29 | It caused him to look back in some compunction , in case he had lied to discover what he wanted to know ; but he could find no lies . |
| 30 | ‘ If you look back in five minutes or so , you 'll see the best view in the whole place . ’ |