Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she did nothing , horrified , her lips drawn back from her teeth , watching how he turned the stump , observing it , his eyes filled with wonder at the thing he had accidentally done . |
| 2 | The boy seemed in pain , his lips drawn back from his teeth in what was almost a snarl , his whole body hunched into itself , as if something ate at him from within . |
| 3 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 4 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 5 | The influence of Cézanne is seen strongly and consistently in some of the paintings Picasso brought back from La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn of 1908 . |
| 6 | He wore the usual faded , dun-coloured every-day clothes of the peasant and labourer , coarse woollen chausses and short homespun tunic , with a capuchon pushed back from his head and dangling at his back ; but the belt that circled his hips was of finely-tooled leather , and had straps to attach both sword and dagger , though he wore neither ; and his boots were knee-high , and also of soft leather , no doubt hand-worked somewhere in Wales , from native deerskin . |
| 7 | She was small , obviously frail , with silvery-white hair drawn back from her face and secured in a knot at the nape of her neck . |
| 8 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 9 | That , those , those two that Paddy brought back from Australia apparently does it . |
| 10 | This is the weird machine with the keyboard set back from the front to give you a place to rest your hands . |
| 11 | Stories brought back from gynaecological examinations and procedures carried out by male doctors are at best disturbing , at worst horrifying . |
| 12 | Nor have the Government responded to reports in Conservative newspapers such as The Times and The Sunday Times which were apparently augmented by evidence brought back from Iraq by United Nations inspectors , and the details of which were plastered all over those newspapers . |
| 13 | After the fourth and last bottle of raksi had been drunk , Śa kar got out the double-ended drum brought back from India by his grandfather many years ago . |
| 14 | To the left of them , a conch shell brought back from the Indian Ocean curled mysteriously in on itself , like the pink and white entrance to another world . |
| 15 | One of the most popular things in the garden — especially with children — is the Bear Hut which used to house a black bear cub one of the Acland sons brought back from Canada . |
| 16 | He said the 51 people flown back from Hong Kong early yesterday had been removed ‘ in line with procedures used worldwide to remove people refused permission to remain in a territory . |
| 17 | Has the Governor got back from Spain yet ? |
| 18 | The tank has 50 kg each of coral sand and gravel and 300 kg of rock , which Jay brought back from a local quarry . |
| 19 | The Michelin Guide to the Côte de l'Atlantique says that this eerie and impressive cavern , which communicates by a passage through the cliff to the château on the summit , was probably made in the twelfth century to shelter the relics of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem brought back from a Crusade by Pierre II of Castillon , who at that time held the château . |
| 20 | The two cuisines of Louisiana can both be sampled in these recipes brought back from John Folses ' plantation restaurant White Oaks , in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . |
| 21 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 22 | From there , no doubt , he 'd gone straight to Hell ; but there were times when he and his wicked mistresses were still to be seen walking here , their shades drawn back from Hellfire to visit the scene of their sins . |
| 23 | Each Home Secretary has in turn drawn back from taking the most obvious and practical steps with the excuse that they can not legislate for the judiciary — its independence is inviolable : |
| 24 | Mark and Babur 's house is a row set back from the Archway Road , just before suicide bridge . |
| 25 | ‘ The last lodgement , that is the money Butler brought back from the States , brought the amount up to five thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 27 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 28 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 29 | There were more puris — a whole basketful — eaten with hot spicy potatoes , fried in mustard oil brought back from Aula , and there was rice for everyone , and an emerald green soup of wild young ka kani leaves . |
| 30 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |