Example sentences of "[verb] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 2 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 3 | They were piled haphazardly , some put back in the wrong sleeves , and were mainly recordings of Italian opera . |
| 4 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 5 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
| 6 | The next psychological breakpoint is the 1,000dpi mark which was the point at which digital phototypesetting began to be accepted back in the late 60s and through the 70s . |
| 7 | I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals — a new interest — and lie back in the contoured leather seats , letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley 's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction . |
| 8 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 9 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 10 | Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses . |
| 11 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 12 | John Diggins ' involvement with Tony Iommi began back in the early '70s when working with guitar builder John Birch on Tony 's original black guitar . |
| 13 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 14 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 15 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 16 | As it turned out , the principal had caught the other boys , and they were all being marched back in the front door of the school , but Mouse did n't know that . |
| 17 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 18 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 19 | Gina settled back in the comfortable upholstery and expelled her breath in a gesture of resignation . |
| 20 | And lolling back in the high chair , he promptly fell asleep . |
| 21 | I think the answer is to be found back in the basic theory . |
| 22 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 23 | Her black hair was swept back in the careless style that only the most expensive hairdressing can give . |
| 24 | Oh well we 'll go back in the other room . |
| 25 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 26 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 27 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | We were troubled at how Frank would cope back in the big world . |
| 29 | Do make sure too , especially on some of the brushes that have washers ( plastic coverings ) , that they go back in the right order and that the screw is done up IN THE CENTRE of the washer . |
| 30 | And I lay back in the cradling pouch-seat , enjoying the feeling of being safe and relaxed — and financially secure for a while , with that fee safely tucked away in my Fedbank account . |