Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 2 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 3 | Bleary-eyed , I staggered back to Nevski Prospect , and there I spotted a dejected-looking husband sitting in his car outside a supermarket , obviously waiting for his wife to emerge with the shopping . |
| 4 | There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow . |
| 5 | La Principessa drew back in mock horror . |
| 6 | Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS . |
| 7 | She bounced back with renewed vigour . ’ |
| 8 | With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | By 1985 only 5% did so , as the final test , order consolidation and shipping operations moved back to American manufacturing plants . |
| 11 | In January , as expected , Vaclav Havel moved back into this office when he was confirmed as President of the new Czech Republic . |
| 12 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 13 | He wore a grey bum freezer , a black polo-neck and Cuban heeled shoes , even after a Vogue chauffeur reported back to managing editor Harry Yoxall that he had picked up ‘ one of those photographers ’ for a New York shoot wearing a leather jacket . |
| 14 | The more successful the shops became , the more the branch managers reported back on those lines which sold well , thereby wielding a power which Laura did not at first wish to accept . |
| 15 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 16 | Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better . |
| 17 | Birds ' songs often sound varied and melodious to us , but if they are recorded and played back at slow speed , they are found to have vastly more detail than we realise . |
| 18 | By 1839 MacLauchlan transferred back to routine OS work until retiring in November 1844 , although his cartographical opinion on future scales of OS maps and contouring was sought by a parliamentary commission in 1854 . |
| 19 | On one occasion , I recall someone commenting that so-and-so came back with 235 holes in his airplane . |
| 20 | ‘ David became ‘ David Hockney ’ when he went to America and came back with blond hair and a great new self-confidence and a much more declared homosexuality . |
| 21 | Aprilia came back with similar feelings . |
| 22 | Les came back with equal honesty . |
| 23 | ‘ That kid came back with painted toenails and was very distressed . ’ |
| 24 | The 1992 Waverley Championships were swum at Cranleigh last weekend and Haslemere swimmers came back with 27 medals , just reward for the time and effort they put into their training . |
| 25 | Zambia came back with two plates of food and sat down again . |
| 26 | Paul Lane came back with two plates of scrambled eggs and buttered toast . |
| 27 | He came back with two slices of dark brown bread and a semi-transparent lump of fat on the top . |
| 28 | The tallest of the grey people , a man , came back with frozen roots . |
| 29 | Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch . |
| 30 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |