Example sentences of "[noun pl] back from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 2 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 3 | If the two pairs of projectors are in line , the intention is not usually a multi-image effect In fact , it s likely that the two projectors nearer to the camera will not contain so much an image as an image-blocker , ie a mask or matte that blocks out part of the image behind it Since the two mattes will normally be complementary , and the combined image can be seen by inspection through the camera 's viewfinder , any faults , such as overlaps or gaps , should be observed at the time and , if possible , corrected on a second , third or fourth take This is more economical and satisfactory than getting the results of multiple passes back from the lab and discovering that a whole day 's work has to be redone . |
| 4 | Right from the kick-off Hove took the game to Haslemere and only excellent defence held the visitors back from the line . |
| 5 | But if the DoE decides that the council has acted unreasonably , the developer may claim costs back from the council . |
| 6 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 7 | Winterbotham , a future mastermind of the ‘ Ultra ’ miracle that decoded wartime German communications , naturally reporting his chilling discoveries back from the Reich to the minions of MacDonald , Baldwin and Chamberlain . |
| 8 | The train slid out of Winnipeg on time at eight-twenty and I put all my energies and attention into being an unexceptional and adequate waiter , even though always conscious of the ominous presence in the aisle seat , facing forward , three tables back from the kitchen end . |
| 9 | Customs ' spokesman John Barber said that excise verification teams in East Anglia had been investigating people who brought goods back from the Continent and sold them . |
| 10 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 11 | Yes she wanted to ride this morn I 'm taking the buggy like this so I can carry the fruit and vegetables back from the market . |
| 12 | They should get out and cut the trees back from the lines so they do n't have the problem . |
| 13 | The wall stood twenty yards back from the road . |
| 14 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 15 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 16 | Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side . |
| 17 | The stewards had thrown a cordon across the fairway seventy yards back from the green . |
| 18 | In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground . |
| 19 | The Earl dragged his fists back from the table and , opening his shoulders and mouth , stretched his sinews , as if parting Philistine pillars . |
| 20 | ‘ Last year , ’ he added , ‘ accountants advised us to let the station fold and buy the bits back from the receiver . |
| 21 | The glow faded in mere moments , during which time the Doctor dropped into the corridor , snatching his hands back from the sides of his newly created tunnel with sharp gasps . |
| 22 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 23 | when we got the letters back from the Secretary of State one of his excuses if you like , for imposing such a savage tax was that it was save fuel and help the environment . |
| 24 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 26 | Every now and again they checked its progress , tilting their faces back from the heat as they reached into the core of the fire . |
| 27 | I went to see the Postmistress and she said I 've known you all my life , so start work on Monday morning because , you see , it was so quick and I had n't got my references back from the Railway Company but that 's what she said er I can start work on Monday morning . |
| 28 | We saw a great many sheep , of course , grazing on the peat-grass and the bog-myrtle ; and every once in a while , some miles back from the road , an estancia — a collection of farm buildings like white dolls ' houses , tiny on the immense plain . |
| 29 | Our cargo of cement was destined for a factory at Tima , a town which lay a few miles back from the riverbank . |