Example sentences of "be [verb] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 2 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 3 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 4 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 5 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 6 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 7 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 8 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 9 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 10 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 11 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 12 | The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings . |
| 13 | They 're exclusive to Club 18–30 and are set back from the main road in t more peaceful location , although the busy centre of Benitses with all its bars , discos and tavernas is within easy walking distance . |
| 14 | The studios are set back from the road and are shaded by the olive trees from which they derive their name . |
| 15 | The apartments are set back from the busy main drag , in their own attractive gardens — a real bonus , as you can either come back in the afternoon for an uninterrupted snooze , or enjoy the hustle and bustle of one of Corfu 's most popular resorts . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 17 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 18 | The taste for sweet and highly spiced food , which made little use of the plants which grew easily in our temperate Northern climate , may well have been brought back from the Holy Land by returning Crusaders . |
| 19 | Abraham has passed the test , Isaac is saved , and the purposes of God are brought back from the edge of the abyss . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Information can then be fed back from the cognitive system to the logogen system to influence the response of this system to the word which is going to be misread . |
| 22 | Such funding would have to be clawed back from the contraction of the institutions . |
| 23 | and the comments I 'm getting back from the er the clients are very very favourable . |
| 24 | Good idea about 606 , I ca n't do it though I 'll be travelling back from the game ! |
| 25 | One more now , as long as they do go out because erm Oh I 've got one that will be coming back from the careers service soon , erm he 's supposed to be ringing tomorrow morning . |
| 26 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |
| 27 | The corporation agreed , and even paid £200 so that the new shops would be set back from the previous building line . |
| 28 | In the earlier book he had proposed an additional reversion to classical principles : that the focus of attention be switched back from the criminal to the crime . |
| 29 | The hull and the deck mouldings are identical to those of the earlier yacht , except that the transom has been raked back from the tuck to meet an extension of the deck . |
| 30 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |