Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 2 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 3 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 4 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 5 | I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal . |
| 6 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 7 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 8 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 9 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 10 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 11 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 12 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 13 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 14 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 15 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 16 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 17 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 18 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 19 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 20 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 21 | When the penis is stimulated by touch , the " feeling message " is carried back to the spinal cord at the sacral level from which the nerves emerge . |
| 22 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 23 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 24 | And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now . |
| 25 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 26 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 27 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 28 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 29 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 30 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |