Example sentences of "back from the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 2 | Standing back from the road in its own grounds , it commanded an extensive view of the sea to the south and the patchwork of stone walls and green fields to the north . |
| 3 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 4 | Patrick stepped back from the door in shock as a tall , broad shouldered man pushed his way in . |
| 5 | The election also marks a further stage in the decline of the manual workers : for example , there would be 13 miners in the new parliamentary Labour Party , against 16 in the old , and 31 in the party Harold Wilson led back from the wilderness in 1964 . |
| 6 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 7 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 8 | Ralph strives to address ‘ the high heid yins of Russia ’ to solicit news of the family , and receives his letter back from the Embassy in London , stamped : ‘ Communication not permitted . ’ |
| 9 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 10 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 11 | Her face was plump , pretty rather than beautiful , with long fair hair tied back from the brow in defiance of the current fashion . |