Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such models and sub-cultures tend to be conservative because they are part of a process of long-term cultural transmission , going back through previous cohorts and even generations . |
| 2 | ‘ If I were your woman , God forbid that I should ever be so cursed , I 'd cut all my hair off ! ’ she hissed back through gritted teeth , devastatingly aware of the effect his nearness was having on her traitorous body . |
| 3 | This may help to explain why Dearlove 's conclusions were premature , but the issues he identifies come back as key concerns in the 1980s and 1990s . |
| 4 | Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent . |
| 5 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 6 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 7 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 8 | Now that is the type of thing that I would like to see come back for legal opinions on that statutory responsibility , the level of it , and the reasons for it . |
| 9 | Mr McKeag ( later Dr McKeag ) had been immensely popular on the Circuit and was often invited back for special services . |
| 10 | Now he is losing hope of getting anything back despite continued efforts , including faxing pleas to the star 's Paisley Park base , in Minneapolis , USA . |
| 11 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 12 | Tarred poles are laden with electrical wires looped out and pinned back like huge bunches of charred bananas . |
| 13 | Locks shoot back like informed guards stepping aside out of obedience , not willingness . |
| 14 | The Fitzgeralds had never known their neighbours very well , partly because Magdalen Street was wide , with houses set back behind small gardens and with steps to the front door , and partly because their big family made them self-sufficient . |
| 15 | Bradley Martin devoted a page to extolling the virtues of cannabis and the need to fight back against legal restrictions and police interventions . |
| 16 | Behind the large mahogany desk sat a tall youngish man with black hair smoothed severely back above regular features , horn-rimmed glasses hiding dark eyes and heavy brows , and an unsmiling face . |
| 17 | The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't want to go back under controlled circumstances , ’ he explained , ‘ I wanted to get on . |
| 19 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 20 | This walk takes you by the River Bure to Upton Dyke and then back along quiet lanes and through woods and fields . |
| 21 | The revolver bucked and flared and the figure before him leaped and fell back with outflung arms . |
| 22 | The youngsters got a lift back with chemical workers on a day trip . |
| 23 | One of my preferred methods of listening to CDs is to put them on and then lie back with closed eyes to concentrate on the music . |
| 24 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 25 | The tallest of the grey people , a man , came back with frozen roots . |
| 26 | Psychologists Aruna Mahtani and Afreen Huq look back with mixed feelings on their special project for Bangladeshi women in Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ It has n't been cancelled yet , ’ the Prince said petulantly , then turned back with specific instructions for Sharpe . |
| 28 | As Melissa entered , the guide stepped back with outspread hands that seemed to invite her small audience to scatter and enjoy the building at their leisure . |
| 29 | He predicted the Conservatives would hit back with personal attacks on Labour leaders , by ordering civil servants to waste time trying to ‘ cost ’ the party 's programmes and then , next week at Blackpool , with ‘ the Team ’ . |
| 30 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |