Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 4 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 5 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 6 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 7 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 8 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 9 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 10 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 11 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 12 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
| 13 | However , healthy skin rebounds back to a normal pH of 4.5 in about 10–15 minutes . |
| 14 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 15 | Everyone who goes on assignment has a Career Manager , someone back at home base chartered to keep the assignee informed , happy , plugged-in — and to make sure he ( or even she ) comes back to a suitable job . |
| 16 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 17 | He comes back with a little piece of paper in his hand waving it , peace in our time . |