Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Her black eyes were bright , her lips curled back in a fearsome snarl that dribbled saliva and left her tongue hanging . |
| 32 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 33 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 34 | Her regents stride back to the foothills ; |
| 35 | Shearer 's penalty capped a remarkable and decisive seven-minute spell in which Southampton , leading thanks to a 13th minute Iain Dowie header , had seen their visitors come back into the game with a 62nd minute equaliser from Les Ferdinand and then miss a 67th minute penalty through Clive Wilson . |
| 36 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 37 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 38 | Its legend goes back to the book of Genesis . |
| 39 | There was a flurry of constitutional activity between 1906 and 1914 , and the House of Lords had its powers cut back by the Parliament Act , 1911 , so formally putting the " balanced " constitution to rest . |
| 40 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 41 | Her head fell back against the chair and she fainted . |
| 42 | Her head relaxed back on the pillow . |
| 43 | She gave him a quick amused glance , her head leaning back against the faded red of the alcove seat . |
| 44 | Her head sags back against the pillow . |
| 45 | She let her head fall back on the pillow , her body arching in swift sensuousness , inviting and inciting the continuation of his caresses . |
| 46 | She closed her eyes and allowed her head to loll back against the pillow . |
| 47 | And Nurse Cohen above him , her head snapped back by a blow and the blood splintering from it . |
| 48 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 49 | The muscles under her eyelids clenched , and the skin on the bone of her forehead moved back like the hood of a snake . |
| 50 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 51 | The Notts County star had been expected to travel north to last night 's clash at Ewood Park , where money-bags Rovers lost 3-2 against Everton and missed their chance to bounce back to the top of the Premier Division . |
| 52 | Her father lay back in the big squashy leather chair and closed his eyes for a moment , before opening them again and fixing them firmly on his daughter . |
| 53 | The mailed hand in his kept hold firmly enough to draw him down to his knees as its owner sank back into the turf . |
| 54 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 55 | They were heading north-east , the morning light in their right eyes and their shadows cast back towards the Skriaig and Ralarth 's western border . |
| 56 | Not only did she receive them quickly , but her answers arrived back in no time . |
| 57 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 58 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 59 | Nathan enquired gravely as their host hurried back to the kitchen . |
| 60 | ‘ Did you have a nice lunch ? ’ asked the teacher as her pupils filed back into the classroom after school dinner . |