Example sentences of "[vb -s] back from the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 5 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 6 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |