Example sentences of "[verb] back from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies .
2 Report back from the seminars
3 Report back from the seminars
4 Report back from the seminars
5 Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth .
6 The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos
7 This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ .
8 THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats .
9 While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two .
10 so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him .
11 We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop .
12 One of the most moving is the Common Riding at Selkirk , whose Flodden memorial with its inscription O , Flodden Field recalls the single local survivor who staggered back from the battle with an English standard , now lodged in the town museum .
13 Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression .
14 On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha .
15 They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level .
16 The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink .
17 So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory .
18 Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to .
19 But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's .
20 ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
21 I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy .
22 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
23 he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again .
24 Well they have n't come back from the shop yet .
25 Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty .
26 The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed .
27 Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup .
28 He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops .
29 And that happened each day till Thursday and then , by then , you were delivering what had come back from the Monday , hoping that when you delivered , and collected the money of course , that you might get something else tt , which I were n't too bad a salesman really .
30 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
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