Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] back from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asik rose to his feet and moved slightly back from the road . |
| 2 | He came briefly back from the dead a few minutes later , pulling into a Backdoor tube and getting fried on the reef . |
| 3 | The orchard lay well back from the riverside , and the wealth of old and well-grown trees between isolated it from the house . |
| 4 | The rectangular site extended well back from the street . |
| 5 | Enjoying a fantastic location in Kos town , you 'll find the Hotel Catherine set just back from the lively , bustling harbour , right in the centre of town and ideally placed for both the beach and nightlife . |
| 6 | I stared at the skull-like face , the hollowed cheek bones , the red hair now combed smoothly back from the forehead . |
| 7 | Sunset Cottage stood well back from the lane , on rising ground . |
| 8 | This treatment was also applied to the smaller door , reached via a short flight of external stone steps that previously served the upper-level hay-loft , so that the new infilling panel of clear double-glazing , set well back from the external face of the wall , helps to light a sitting room while a ‘ door ’ , which can be swung like a shutter to seal this opening , is fixed back against the face of the adjoining flintwork . |
| 9 | Mr. Oswald Stoll — who was subsequently knighted — began to erect , in 1911 , one of his ‘ Empires ’ , a theatre of entertainment , in Chiswick High Road , situated between the ‘ Old Packhorse ’ on the corner of Acton Lane , and the family butchers , ‘ Caughts ’ which had its own slaughter house , as well as a shop set well back from the main road , just west of Essex Place Square . |
| 10 | On the Lagos Government Railway , simple white two-storeyed stations with an upper veranda supported on the columns of the lower , set well back from the tracks , were standard . |
| 11 | Newman slowed down , stopped outside a cottage set well back from the road so Paula could read the name . |