Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping back a little fondant for the door and children ( about 100g/4oz ) , colour the remaining fondant blue . |
| 2 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 3 | That , too , she managed to turn into a joke , while keeping back the unwelcome sighting of Robert . |
| 4 | He is probably downstairs , knocking back a stiff gin and tonic before submitting himself to the milder offering of champagne . |
| 5 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 6 | We 'll also be looking back a little bit at the Breeder 's Cup , we 'll also have the result of your poll for the Channel Four racing personality of the year , there 's the picture puzzle and lots of other things as well which I ca n't remember . |
| 7 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 8 | Of pushing back every natural instinct . |
| 9 | Again her driving force was animating him , pushing back an insidious sensation of inertia . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , he did , ’ Lady Isabella spoke up , pushing back the black veil from her face . |
| 11 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 12 | Hari sat down and put her basket on the floor , pushing back the white cloth , she was well used to the way Cleg and his wife carried on , it did n't mean a thing . |
| 13 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 14 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 15 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 16 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 17 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 18 | ‘ People were turning around and going back the other way , which was extremely dangerous . |
| 19 | Going back the other way , those needles which just knitted will rest and only the other ones will knit ; for example , going from right to left the first and alternate needles KNIT , going back from left to right , the second and alternate needles knit . |
| 20 | If we put more oxygen in , it might start going back the other way . |
| 21 | I 'm going going back the other way . |
| 22 | They 're going back the other way . |
| 23 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |
| 24 | And , turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour , caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession . |
| 25 | The virtues of this procedure , which does n't lengthen but in fact shortens your investigation , are as follows : ( a ) The actual investigation is simplified , as you do n't have to keep turning back an unwieldy abstract to see which documents contained restrictions , whether the seller named in one conveyance was the buyer named in the previous deed , etc . |
| 26 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 27 | It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs . |
| 28 | But I do see the project quality plan being extremely valuable because you will be feeding back the front part of the quality plan to the client and explaining the extras that you 're going to do , or the constraints within which you 're working . |
| 29 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 30 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |