Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] back at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She banished them from her mind and glanced back at Clarissa who was sleeping peacefully . |
| 2 | She turned in the doorway and looked back at him , smiling . |
| 3 | Fatally , she twisted her head to one side and looked back at him . |
| 4 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 5 | Isambard 's deep eyes flashed to Harry 's face and lingered there , untroubled by the naked hate and defiance that stared back at him . |
| 6 | The books were behind glass , and the reflection that stared back at him showed the face of a stranger . |
| 7 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 8 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 9 | For a moment he thought that Alexei was going to argue , but then he ducked his head quickly in the Khan 's direction and stared back at Rostov , cheeks flushed , expression angry . |
| 10 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 11 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 12 | as if he could feel her glowering gaze resting on him , he briefly turned his head and looked back at her . |
| 13 | The German romantic desire to escape from conflict and to arrive back at a state of harmony and unity is one of the most important psychological motives behind European federalism , and it ignores the basic fact that politics is always messy , divided and unharmonious . |
| 14 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 15 | And then the summer time they come out on a Monday morning and gone back at on Monday night . |
| 16 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 17 | We left Clove Lodge at six o'clock in the morning and arrived back at four o'clock the following morning . |
| 18 | He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six . |
| 19 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 20 | She paused as she was about to close the door and looked back at him . |
| 21 | Whitlock walked to the door and looked back at Kolchinsky . |
| 22 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 23 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 24 | All in all the image that looked back at me was not displeasing . |
| 25 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 26 | One day , I did extra training and arrived back at his home at about 4.30pm . |
| 27 | He walked to the door , then paused with one hand on the handle and looked back at her . |
| 28 | The car made a U-turn and headed back at high speeds . |
| 29 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 30 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |