Example sentences of "back at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut away the waste wood around the ears with the coping saw , and use the 1in shallow gouge to further shape them and the nostrils so that they angle back at each side . |
| 2 | ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive . |
| 3 | ‘ Although it was horrible to lose my titles , I look back at that fight as a great experience . ’ |
| 4 | But she thought , looking back at that pewter sky and narrow saffron afterglow as the Aston Martin purred into life and shot away at speed : Yes , individuals do ! |
| 5 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 6 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 7 | Then she spun , staring back at that hard-faced , powerful man , and felt her heart beat with abrupt violence . |
| 8 | you get it back at that end , yeah . |
| 9 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 10 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 11 | Jack came back at that moment . |
| 12 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 13 | We would like the photo back at some time but after nearly 40 years , time is not of the essence . |
| 14 | For each day there is a diet sheet , more interesting key facts , and a weight and symptom chart for your to complete as you did for Stage I. It is vital that you keep this chart up to date : you will undoubtedly need to refer back at some point during the next few weeks , so the records are nothing short of vital ! |
| 15 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 16 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 17 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 18 | Looking back at this morning — any early mist patches soon cleared and although it was a dry staert everywhere , it has remained cloudy . |
| 19 | Looking back at this time , Nigel was surprisingly patient , but he was worried that , if he did n't improve , he 'd be unable to help with the move as almost any movement of his right arm increased his suffering . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 21 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 22 | A front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Sunday People — A monster goes back to his lair : RETURN OF THE FOX — in which the front-page photograph showed Fairley accompanied by police officers ‘ back at this lair , showing police the scene of one of his evil deeds ’ . |
| 23 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 24 | If you look back at any year you only get ten or 20 good records and they 're not likely to be all in one week . ’ |
| 25 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 26 | On a table in the hall was a pile of letters , addressed to officers who might be dead , or in prison camps , or coming back at any moment … . |
| 27 | ‘ Or is he due back at any moment ? |
| 28 | I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 29 | You see , my father generally deals with these ; I 'm expecting him back at any moment . |
| 30 | through the nose , but we 've got them all back at any rate , so Where are we at the moment ? |