Example sentences of "back [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure you lean back through a curved spine and rock off the heel of your hands for added support . |
| 2 | It was not her harmonica , it was higher pitched , a peeping sound like a poor recording played back through a tiny speaker . |
| 3 | and come back as a bloody teenager with big tits and everything . |
| 4 | I felt the spiritual strength that had deserted me flowing back as a warm glow that welled up inside , filling my being . |
| 5 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 6 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 7 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 8 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 9 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 10 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 11 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
| 12 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 14 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 15 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 16 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 17 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 18 | It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year . |
| 19 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 20 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 21 | Go back for a second glance — is that really me ? |
| 22 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 23 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |
| 24 | The path follows the road out of Port Isaac and at the top it 's worth glancing back for a final look at this fascinating place . |
| 25 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 26 | It was Hibs and not Rangers who looked as if they were the ones holding something back for a bigger midweek game to come . |
| 27 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 28 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 29 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 30 | The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore . |