Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , they saw the sea receding from the near-by beaches ; sucked away and apparently forced back by the earthquakes , so that quantities of sea creatures were left stranded . |
| 2 | JOHN BECK took over as manager of Second Division Preston yesterday and immediately hit back at his critics . |
| 3 | Back in the present , enemies of the guerrillas ' 'new democracy' have their feet and heads hacked off and crudely sewn back on — the wrong way round . |
| 4 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 5 | During the late spring and summer of 1937 the revolution was well and truly rolled back in two of its former strongholds : Catalonia , which ceased to be autonomous within Republican Spain , and Aragon , where the CNT-dominated Council of Aragon was physically destroyed by Communist forces . |