Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tarred poles are laden with electrical wires looped out and pinned back like huge bunches of charred bananas . |
| 2 | She thought back with bitter awareness of what the astrologer had told her when she had read her charts . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's called Titian , ’ she said , pushing her waves back with vigorous sweeps of her hands as if to deny its attraction to men . |
| 4 | In the four processes of that planning ( DES 1989e and DES 1991a ) the starting-point is audit , followed by and fed back from successive stages of construction , implementation and evaluation of a plan . |
| 5 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 6 | Good old Nick , I thought , now I 've got my old job back on direct account of him . |
| 7 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 8 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Through the clerkly sympathies of the fabliau corpus we can justifiably reach back to other forms of literature and literary theory associated with students and the universities and assess the fabliaux in that light . |
| 10 | Two things to do with you today mainly one is to whip through at least part of the isomers work and , I say part of it because you 'll be coming back to other parts of it a bit later on when you 've , for example , we 'll coming back to erm , isomers work . |
| 11 | As the Lord President has successfully demolished the Opposition 's spurious arguments , will he get back to real questions of security and take time to pay tribute to all who look after security in the Palace of Westminster ? |
| 12 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 13 | In this case the sacrifice brings the offerer back to full membership of the holy community . |
| 14 | It has two functions : ( a ) it acts as a point of orientation by connecting back to previous stretches of discourse and thereby maintaining a coherent point of view and , ( b ) it acts as a point of departure by connecting forward and contributing to the development of later stretches . |
| 15 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 16 | Therapists will take a patient back to difficult areas of the past , if they believe that the patient 's problems stem from this . |
| 17 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 18 | WOMEN in the corporate world are being held back by unsuitable methods of management training , according to research by Lancaster University Management School . |
| 19 | The crowd , held back by serried ranks of soldiers , was already growing restless and shouts of ‘ Get on with it ! ’ , |