Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back from [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
2 Of course , we have only just got back from our honeymoon . ’
3 Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip .
4 Her straw bonnet had a large brim which was usually turned back from her face , but today she did n't want people looking at her grief so she had tipped the brim down .
5 She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment .
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