Example sentences of "[vb past] back in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generous lips drew back in a smile to reveal small , pearl-like teeth . |
| 2 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 3 | He touched his torn face and his lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 4 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 5 | ‘ Cool off , Ruth , ’ he ordered sharply and was about to slam out of the room when her speech came back in a rush and furiously she hit out with her pièce de résistance . |
| 6 | Then everything came back in a wave of anguish and she ducked her head under the water and made herself hold her eyes open until they smarted with pain . |
| 7 | When he came back in a temper sometimes , or been drinking , Cis told me they would put Rich on the kitchen table and tell him to dance . |
| 8 | You came back in a dream . |
| 9 | It came back in a form against which there could be no defence . |
| 10 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 11 | He came back in the middle of the morning and his eyes met Jenna 's at once . |
| 12 | Noticed when he came back in the afternoon , while he was talking to Rose . |
| 13 | Tries by Underwood and Morris were backed-up by Webb 's boot as the English pack bolstered by Richards , came back in the second-half for a record victory . |
| 14 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 15 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 16 | I was n't with her all that long before the mother came back in the car . |
| 17 | It came back in the form of the Cult of Slaanesh . |
| 18 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 19 | And now there were the two black and white kittens found abandoned on the grass verge of the coast road as they came back in the van from Ipswich . |
| 20 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 21 | He came back in the evening , bringing Lyn a fieldmouse . |
| 22 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 23 | So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . |
| 24 | It was Hallowe'en , but the rows of surburban semis near the theatre as we drove back in the coach looked profoundly unmagical . |
| 25 | .. and a myriad of other details , talked about in the classroom , practised back in the Academy grounds and now for ‘ real ’ . |
| 26 | Course I immediately darted back in the house and told me dad and well , and er he says er , you can look out for some trouble then now like , you know and er , nothing happened . |
| 27 | Not only did she receive them quickly , but her answers arrived back in no time . |
| 28 | PLUCKY little Laura Davies arrived back in the UK yesterday after her life-saving bowel and liver transplant in America . |
| 29 | The final words were pronounced in ringing tones as they arrived back in the hall , where Officer Hassan and Dieter were just emerging from the salon . |
| 30 | When I arrived back in the Department from the Northern Ireland Office , I appreciated the complexities of the old supplementary benefit system . |