Example sentences of "back from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunset Cottage stood well back from the lane , on rising ground . |
| 2 | Standing back from the lane and slightly below it , at the bottom of a weed-covered drive . |
| 3 | He felt slightly uncomfortable , having seen three men in lounge suits on his way back from the bathroom ; the only clothes he had with him were casual ones . |
| 4 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 5 | God , it was Tessa coming back from the bathroom ! |
| 6 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 7 | On the way back from the bathroom , Melissa stopped in front of a cabinet laden with framed photographs . |
| 8 | He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave . |
| 9 | Also standing well back from the grave , Mike Treloar , the printing works foreman , supported himself on a stick . |
| 10 | ‘ Why do you bring a dead body back from the grave ? ’ |
| 11 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 12 | He ordered Trent back from the handhold on the companionway so that he was safely out of range while untying the rope . |
| 13 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 14 | The French boy turned on one of his fierce expressions of shock and outrage and leaned back from the waist to subject the American boy 's now-blushing face to pantomime scrutiny . |
| 15 | When you see them , move back from the river until the edge of the bank shields you from the fish . |
| 16 | I move back from the river , walk the length of the glide and then , after swapping from leger to float tackle on my 13ft match rod , insert myself between two slender willows at the head of the run . |
| 17 | I often go this way to walk to Brigflatts , a very special building that lies a field back from the river Rawthey near the Sedbergh to Kendal road . |
| 18 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 19 | On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water . |
| 20 | The palace stands far back from the river , its only access being through fields and orchards which protect it against the vagaries of the Thames . |
| 21 | The smell that floated back from the river with its docks and factories was unpleasant , like her life at present . |
| 22 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 24 | Abraham has passed the test , Isaac is saved , and the purposes of God are brought back from the edge of the abyss . |
| 25 | I had taken the slabs one course back from the edge of the hole , and Lou had arranged them neatly in order , so we would know what went where . |
| 26 | They are , indeed , reported by people who have been brought back from the edge of death — though mundane scientists tend to attribute them to the effects of oxygen starvation on a failing brain . |
| 27 | KEEP BACK FROM THE EDGE OF ALL PLATFORMS WHETHER THERE IS A YELLOW LINE OR NOT . |
| 28 | Hope reined himself in , pulled back from the edge of his desperation , ‘ … at times have been led to think that way . ’ |
| 29 | The others hauled her back from the edge . |
| 30 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |