Example sentences of "[vb past] back in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 2 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 3 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
| 4 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |
| 5 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 6 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 7 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 8 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 9 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 10 | Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses . |
| 11 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 12 | John Diggins ' involvement with Tony Iommi began back in the early '70s when working with guitar builder John Birch on Tony 's original black guitar . |
| 13 | Ruth hung back in the shadowy hallway and peered through the wide arched open front door , her heart beating so wildly she felt sick with it . |
| 14 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 15 | Gina settled back in the comfortable upholstery and expelled her breath in a gesture of resignation . |
| 16 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 17 | Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal . |
| 18 | West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay . |
| 19 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 20 | And I lay back in the cradling pouch-seat , enjoying the feeling of being safe and relaxed — and financially secure for a while , with that fee safely tucked away in my Fedbank account . |
| 21 | Ensconsed in the privacy of one of the new modern bath-rooms , she turned off the tap , lay back in the warm mineral water , let her whole body go limp , and let her mind follow suit . |
| 22 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 23 | She lay back in the musty smelling chair , at peace with the world , and allowed the late April sun to envelop her . |
| 24 | Her father lay back in the big squashy leather chair and closed his eyes for a moment , before opening them again and fixing them firmly on his daughter . |
| 25 | The older industrial regions of the North , North-West , and Yorkshire and Humberside enhanced their population shares during the nineteenth century then fell back in the twentieth . |
| 26 | The acceleration of the income tax liability may prove to be particularly serious in the context of firms which reached a peak income in the boom year of 1988 , slipped back in the two subsequent years and are now again on a rising profit curve . |
| 27 | RONAN Rafferty , fifth overnight at three under par , slipped back in the European Open golf tournament at the East Sussex National course today with a one over par second round 73 . |
| 28 | In manufacturing industry , productivity growth slipped back in the early 1970s in Europe and Japan ( table 11.5 ) . |
| 29 | I leaned back in the wooden chair and stretched . |
| 30 | Tony leaned back in the comfortable maroon velvet chair and admired the decor in the newly refurbished theatre-bar . |