Example sentences of "back at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ . |
| 2 | You may , looking back at the stories about those two ( and you should have read them , twice over ) think they are no more than high old eccentrics bright enough to solve intriguing cases . |
| 3 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 4 | She was back at the curtains again . |
| 5 | Hard to talk though ; the machines are as noisy as the trains back at the flats and there 's pop music screaming out all day long from the radio wedged on top of the mantelpiece . |
| 6 | The Sergeant looked back at the troopers . |
| 7 | Back at the Noones ' , I enjoyed a snack in the front room , in the company of the good-looking teenage Noones , curly-headed Martin ( or ‘ Murt ’ ) and his pink-cheeked sister , a wholesome girl who played guitar at the Folk Mass . |
| 8 | Lehmann looked back at the others . |
| 9 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |
| 10 | Back at the products , version 6.2 should be entering beta test by the end of the year and , for the first time , Pick should become properly aware of networks and usable across distributed systems . |
| 11 | Back at the games table he sat down in his straight-backed chair and stared across at Ajayi , who put down the slate she was studying . |
| 12 | They tackled like demons and when they were able to run the ball back at the Londoners their refusal to capitulate eventually wore down the opposition . |
| 13 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |
| 14 | PAT Clinton hit back at the critics who jeered him after he retained his WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on Saturday . |
| 15 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 16 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 17 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 18 | Bjaaland looked back at the mountains . |
| 19 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 20 | The Suffolk 's head is big with a broad forehead , and often with a star on it or a shim or blaze down the face ; the neck deep in the collar and tapering to a graceful setting of the head ; the shoulders long and muscular and thrown well back at the withers . |
| 21 | She looked back at the stepping-stones , over which the river was rushing noisily . |
| 22 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 23 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 24 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 25 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |
| 26 | After electing Labour 's Ashok Kumar last November , they are back at the polls barely five months later . |
| 27 | ‘ You can also find that grass dies back at the edges of the slot . ’ |
| 28 | As the date of the General Election approaches , we look back at the Tories ' record on housing and mortgage rates . |
| 29 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 30 | The obvious window treatments in traditional dining rooms are curtains on rods , or under pelmets , or hung from various headings , tied back at the sides , and used with roller , Roman or festoon blinds if you wanted to cut a particular dash . |