Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 2 | Some are heaps of stones in a number of characteristic shapes , dating back a thousand years or more . |
| 3 | He touched her face gently , his thumb brushing her cheek , his fingers lightly smoothing back the straying tendrils of her hair . |
| 4 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 5 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |
| 6 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 7 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 8 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 9 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 10 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 11 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 12 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 13 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
| 14 | Pale moonlight lanced through winter skies , the clouds withdrawing for a moment so that the bleak , whorled stone gleamed silver , reflecting back the cool rays . |
| 15 | Belinda laughed , blinking back the sudden tears that had started to her eyes , and hoping that Tom had not seen them . |
| 16 | Juliet sat rigidly in her seat , biting back the frustrated tears that constricted her throat . |
| 17 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 18 | The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda . |
| 19 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 20 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 21 | Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst , smashing back the last barriers to her soul , and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion . |