Example sentences of "[verb] back in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some drive back in their own cars . |
| 2 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 3 | It 's usually trivial , like things not being put back in their right place , or borrowing without asking . |
| 4 | And as the charity shelters close , many more will be put back in their cardboard boxes . |
| 5 | It was a damning report on America 's VD service by her international peers and colleagues , many of whom , it might be added , had little better to offer back in their own countries . |
| 6 | All the time , while people sat back in their new sky-clawing cities , safely enwombed away from the nasty poisons outside , Tech-Green 's brilliant minds developed ever more complex measures to solve the planet 's debilities . |
| 7 | Didier had class-mates who lived in the extensive nineteenth-century houses , set back in their own grounds , on the hill behind the rue Victorie . |
| 8 | It stood at right angles to the road , and rather nearer it than most of the larger houses which stood back in their well-kept gardens . |