Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 2 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 3 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 4 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 5 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 6 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 7 | Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face . |
| 8 | Sharpe slithered back from the treeline and climbed wearily into the saddle . |
| 9 | God , it was Tessa coming back from the bathroom ! |
| 10 | Every category recorded an improvement and only the South West and East Anglia fell back from the April figures . |
| 11 | Ace snapped savagely , causing Benny to step back from the unexpectedly vicious tone in her voice . |
| 12 | The election also marks a further stage in the decline of the manual workers : for example , there would be 13 miners in the new parliamentary Labour Party , against 16 in the old , and 31 in the party Harold Wilson led back from the wilderness in 1964 . |
| 13 | The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos |
| 14 | Battling Boro came back from a 1–0 half-time deficit to take the semi-final into extra time through a fine goal by Bernie Slaven . |
| 15 | Peggy stepped back from the old woman . |
| 16 | Patrick stepped back from the door in shock as a tall , broad shouldered man pushed his way in . |
| 17 | Mitch stepped back from the door . |
| 18 | I remember Status Quo 's ‘ Down Down ’ , though , and was disappointed that Cud drew back from an attempt at reproducing Quo 's perfect repetition . |
| 19 | Harry leaned back from the table and considered Minter 's theory . |
| 20 | The dispute within Solidarity reached its height during the June 29-July 1 meeting of the Solidarity citizens ' committees in Warsaw , at which some observers feared a complete break-up of the union , and at which Michnik publicly appealed to Walesa to step back from a potentially ruinous confrontation with the government . |
| 21 | When Celia got back from the opera , she was pleased to find the flat was empty . |
| 22 | BORIS BECKER bounced back from a poor spell with a 7–6 , 6–3 victory over world No 1 Jim Courier in the quarter-finals of the Paris Open yesterday . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 25 | It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone . |
| 26 | Dysart turned back from the desk smiling broadly . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's nearly twelve o'bloody clock , ’ Billy slurred back from a now almost horizontal position , ‘ ai n't you never had enough ? |
| 28 | Dowd stepped back from the dying man as if slapped . |
| 29 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 30 | The tank has 50 kg each of coral sand and gravel and 300 kg of rock , which Jay brought back from a local quarry . |