Example sentences of "[vb past] back from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most moving is the Common Riding at Selkirk , whose Flodden memorial with its inscription O , Flodden Field recalls the single local survivor who staggered back from the battle with an English standard , now lodged in the town museum . |
| 2 | Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression . |
| 3 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 4 | Aberdeen , who bounced back from the disappointment of losing to Rangers with a deserved Cup win over Dundee United on Sunday , are likely to be unchanged . |
| 5 | Transvaal , who had beaten Western Province the week before , bounced back from the Baa-Baas defeat with a win against Free State the week after . |
| 6 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 7 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 8 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 9 | He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave . |
| 10 | ( See appendix letter 3 and letter 4 which shows the reply which came back from the parents . ) |
| 11 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 12 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 13 | Kate came back from the kitchen and the ghosts cringed back into their corners . |
| 14 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 15 | Charles was looking at a film still of Banks in one of his most famous roles as the captain of a doomed frigate , when Dottie came back from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne . |
| 16 | Loretta was rinsing the cups when Bridget came back from the phone . |
| 17 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 18 | Finally , at just after ten o'clock by Rock Hardy , Stanley came back from the pub and Emily totted up the points . |
| 19 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 20 | It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you have n't worn since it came back from the cleaners . |
| 21 | Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child . |
| 22 | As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention . |
| 23 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |
| 24 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 25 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 26 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't know what to do when he came back from the zone . |
| 28 | She came back from the telephone booth quickly , looking distracted . |
| 29 | Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled . |
| 30 | Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back . |