Example sentences of "back [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 2 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 3 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 4 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 5 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 6 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 7 | Blanche held the man 's gaze for a second and glanced back down at the piece of paper . |
| 8 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 9 | ‘ At the end of BST they will get an hour back so at the end of the day it will all even out , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I was on about 12,000 revs and tried to bring the wheel back in at the apex of the corner , ’ James said , ‘ but it was too far gone and that was it . |
| 12 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 13 | It is probably best to take this piece seated , to suggest a character looking back reflectively at the events recalled . |
| 14 | No , cos one of them kept going up to London for the we week and then went back home at the weekends and he had this lovely house ! |
| 15 | He 's due back home at the end of the month , and will be totally involved on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 16 | Back home at the family garage near Banbury , Richard and Thomas Tuthill are keeping things ticking over until their father returns for the big celebration . |
| 17 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 18 | KQ VI may be criticised as being too easy and not achieving anything new — forget that , it is good old fashioned family entertainment , and with now Kings Quest VI and Quest for Glory III Sierra are back up at the top of the pile ! |
| 19 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 20 | He glanced back up at the house , where warm orange light spilled out from the dining room into the grey afternoon . |
| 21 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 22 | Back again at the parsonage at Etten , he must have pleaded with sufficient eloquence to convince his father that he should be allowed to try . |
| 23 | This is a long way from sociobiology , but we are back again at the problem of continuity/discontinuity . |
| 24 | Due to popular demand we 're pleased to be back again at the Thermai for Summer ‘ 90 , one of the most established hotels in Rhodes Town . |
| 25 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 26 | But first let us look back briefly at the events from 1945 to 1956 that provided the prologue to the post-imperial era which began at Suez . |
| 27 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |