Example sentences of "back at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seems you offered her a lift home , and she promised her baby-sitter she 'd be back at a reasonable hour . |
| 2 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 3 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 4 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 5 | They 're not velocity sensitive ( ie. they wo n't respond to how hard you hit them with changes in signal ) , and although you can record rhythms and bass lines of varying dynamics into an RY10 pattern from a MIDI source , the incoming velocity values are n't recorded by the drum machine and so the sounds play back at a fixed level . |
| 6 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 7 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 8 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 9 | He had a beard and his forehead sloped back at a steep angle . |
| 10 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 11 | It can then call you back at a specified number . |
| 12 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |
| 13 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 14 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 15 | The Bank is considering the view of the IBOA to their proposals on Job Sharing and will revert back at an early date . |
| 16 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 17 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 18 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 19 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 20 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 21 | They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank , back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more . |
| 22 | Honour having been saved , I for one was certainly not going to argue but , just for good measure , I hurled a few more insults back at the towering colossus who was marching towards us . |
| 23 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 24 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
| 26 | The first night 's long walk up to the moor with the hives , Ruari glanced back at the wee lass trotting along behind Ranald 's lurch , gamely holding up her end of the staff . |
| 27 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 28 | Clasper screamed back at the chanting mob that they were management lackeys who had been conned by Peters , and sold down the river by Bunker . |
| 29 | Clasper yelled back at the chanting mob . |
| 30 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |