Example sentences of "back [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 2 | When cutting , err on the large size , then pare back for an accurate fit , leaving the new timber about 3mm proud of the rest of the sill |
| 3 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 4 | His parents welcomed him , assuming he was back for an indefinite stay and perhaps interpreting this as a change of heart . |
| 5 | And what a disaster : Arnold had 48 going out and 39 coming back for an 87 . |
| 6 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 7 | Best song of the night though , is the bitter ‘ High As I Kite ’ which builds via a tense three minutes , drops out and then comes back like an annoyed shop customer , to have another go . |
| 8 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 9 | It favoured a more voluntaristic conception of human action — a need to see human beings fighting back against an oppressive state , and capable of making things happen . |
| 10 | The lower jawbone continues through both the North and South Islands of New Zealand until it reaches the ‘ chin ’ , then begins a slow doubling back along an unseen series of mid-oceanic ridges that curve through the roaming forties , become the back of Pac-Man 's skull and turn back up towards warmer water , surfacing briefly as Easter Island and the pinnacles of Sala y Gomez , and joining the scalp and the hairline at the Mexican coast , Baja California and the west coasts of America , Canada and , finally , Alaska once more . |
| 11 | And still laughing , Charlie said , ‘ But I did what you lot did n't do : I came back with an Irish jig , and then , ‘ We 'll Meet Again ’ and ‘ Roll Out The Barrel ’ . |
| 12 | Stiffly , she spun on her heel and began to march away , but Roman caught her arm , hauling her back with an insulting lack of effort . |
| 13 | The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority . |
| 14 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 15 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 16 | MOTORIST Janet Glover put her new £10,000 Toyota Corolla in for its first service — and got it back with an unwanted extra . |
| 17 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 18 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 19 | You 'd bloody like to go on holiday to America and they come back with an American accent I could shoot people who do that . |
| 20 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 21 | A delicately ludicrous picture comes into Howard 's mind of an enthusiastic little hiker with a rucksack on his back , trying to walk up the side of the Matterhorn , and tumbling back with an astonished look on his face . |
| 22 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 23 | ‘ Can you really turn the mileage back with an electric drill ? ’ young Michael asked . |
| 24 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 25 | Long hair must be held back with an elastic band : clasps and metal grips are not allowed . |
| 26 | Her hair was thin and fair and long , caught back with an elastic band , and her face was thin and long too , wizened and pinched . |
| 27 | Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering £3.3m bid , and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal . |
| 28 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 29 | With brown hair , scragged back into an elastic band , and huge , golden eyes . |
| 30 | Throughout the nineteenth century the national movements which developed within the great multinational empires which dominated eastern and central Europe were inspired by the sense of deep historical roots which went back into an imaginary golden age before the Ottomans , the Habsburgs , the Romanovs and the Hohenzollerns enslaved the ancient nations of medieval Europe . |