Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had a plain glazed back to illuminate the upper deck at night and the lamps were removed from the hoops . |
| 2 | The litter on the kitchen table had been pushed back to leave a clear corner on which a cloth , clean but creased , had been laid , and on it were two unmatching plates and two cups which bore no relation in design or size , to their saucers . |
| 3 | Faded blue velvet curtains , worn in places and with dust lying along the folds , were pushed back to allow the last of the light to enter the room . |
| 4 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 5 | One of the curtains was tied back to reveal a secret door into another small room . |
| 6 | The memo continues by stating that if the group who were to be part of the first squadron returned by road , they would waste too much time and should therefore be flown back to collect the new vehicles and supplies needed at Kufra . |
| 7 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 8 | Most of the coconut palms had been cleared from the twenty-acre site , and the dense vegetation had been cut back to deepen the crescent-shaped beach where the six low-level Mediterranean accommodation blocks were to be built , each housing twenty rooms , varying in size and design but all with huge covered terraces overhanging the beach with uninterrupted sea views . |
| 9 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 10 | American Trust , after a poor first half , has bounced back to report a 26 per cent leap in net asset value per share for the full year to 265.2p , from last year 's 210.3p . |