Example sentences of "back [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Mrs Sanderson was a slender woman with pepper-and-salt hair pulled back into an old-fashioned bun . |
| 32 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 33 | Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position . |
| 34 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 35 | And the other afternoon — crises are always in the afternoon — when Harry , back from an official lunch , comes out of his office and announces , ‘ Gentlemen , I thought you might be interested to know that the location of the Alps has been shifted to Central Africa . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 37 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 38 | Kasper was just back from an hour-long agonising on Swiss television about the disaster in store for the winter sports industry . |
| 39 | Inflation , which fell back from an annual rate of 79 per cent in January 1990 to 1.7 per cent in August , was at 4 to 5 per cent a month for the rest of the year , partly because of oil price rises due to the Gulf war . |
| 40 | But always some clerk would gather them up and shower them back from an upper window . |
| 41 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 42 | But it was Johnson who so nearly turned the game in the second period as Giants clawed their way back from an aggregate deficit of 16 points at 46-37 behind . |
| 43 | You can easily change back from an improper fraction to a mixed number by dividing the denominator into the numerator and putting the remainder over the denominator . |
| 44 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 45 | Now the rather depressing side of football pools as you only get twenty eight pounds in the hundred pounds back in an overall figure . |
| 46 | Our traditional attractions include the beginnings of the white cliffs of Dover , historic monuments such as the landing places of St. Augustine and Julius Caesar , and the medieval cinque port of Sandwich , whose parliamentary representation stretches back in an unbroken line to the days of Simon de Montfort . |
| 47 | In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout . |
| 48 | NEWCASTLE No 2 Terry McDermott yesterday hit back in an angry war of words with Aberdeen boss Willie Miller . |
| 49 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 50 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |
| 51 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 52 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 53 | Undeterred , he kept his gaze averted , saying quietly , ‘ I have something here which may yet put the company back on an upward spiral . |
| 54 | Desperately she tried to get the conversation back on an impersonal footing . |
| 55 | Now Sky , with promised aggressive coverage , can put it back on an equal footing with the other competitions , although a more compelling argument for reviving the Sunday afternoon walk in the country it is hard to imagine . |
| 56 | Now Sky , with promised aggressive coverage , can put it back on an equal footing with the other competitions , although a more compelling argument for reviving the Sunday afternoon walk in the country it is hard to imagine . |
| 57 | The individual is motivated to change the situation back to an equitable one . |
| 58 | The Tuesday morning was overcast and dull with none of the compensating crispness that had helped Forester to crawl back to an alert state on previous days . |
| 59 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 60 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |