Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dick Hebdige stands back from the virtual war
2 An imposing large house stands back from the main road , known as Thorne Hall , dated 1881 .
3 Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
4 At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
5 And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two .
6 This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ .
7 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
8 But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood .
9 Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was .
10 As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland
11 He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members .
12 Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 .
13 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
14 The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane .
15 I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students .
16 Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway .
17 A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant .
18 But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division .
19 Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave .
20 This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man .
21 Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age .
22 ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’
23 Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) .
24 The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables .
25 The latter phrase harks back to the bare trust provision in section 6(3) .
26 STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain .
27 There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form .
28 ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’
29 But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 .
30 After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one .
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