Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings were made of plastic and glass on a plexiglass base , detailed at the front but merely silhouettes further back . |
| 2 | Just looked steadily back at him with the faintest trace of a smile . |
| 3 | However , the perm has just come slowly back again . |
| 4 | Conifers other than yew usually resent harsh treatment , however , and are difficult to rejuvenate , Deciduous species are best pruned hard back in late winter , evergreens in late spring — cutting one side a year back to a foot within the intended final width to allow room for regrowth . |
| 5 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 6 | The rest of the group just stared wordlessly back . |
| 7 | There were all kinds of people staring in at us , and for a while Tod just stared stupidly back at them . |
| 8 | I paused and Benjamin just stared blankly back . |
| 9 | I was past caring about feeling guilt and shame and everything was collapsing anyway , so I just looked straight back at her , resigned , and after a while I shook my head . |
| 10 | If anyone caught her curious eye , they just smiled politely back and got on with their business . |
| 11 | Indeed , there 's an excellent description in the seventeenth century by the physician Thomas Willis of an honest and prudent woman , as he describes her , who erm , after much hasty speaking will become mute as a fish , and one might even fancifully look further back and wonder whether this fatiguable weakness was n't something that erm that the Old Testament character , Samson , had . |
| 12 | And then there 's the way that Steve played right on the on-beat , in contrast to the rhythm section , which always fell way back behind the beat — that 's part of the reason it all worked so well . ’ |
| 13 | We have also looked further back , to the roots of our culture in the classical period , when philosophers first interpreted happiness as peace of mind . |
| 14 | Swings also moved gently back and forth in the breeze , as if rocked by some unseen hand . |
| 15 | The rear seat is also mounted further back on different mountings . |
| 16 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 17 | Also standing well back from the grave , Mike Treloar , the printing works foreman , supported himself on a stick . |
| 18 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 19 | The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans . |
| 20 | But with good medical treatment they will often get nearly back to normal health . |
| 21 | I stared at the skull-like face , the hollowed cheek bones , the red hair now combed smoothly back from the forehead . |
| 22 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 23 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Imperial Opera are bravely burrowing further back in the Britten archives to stage the comic musical Paul Bunyan which Britten wrote with Auden during wartime exile in America ( see listings , below , for performance details and for discount offer on the Royal Opera 's Peter Grimes ) . |
| 25 | She stopped at noon for some bread and cheese , and a glass of wine diluted with water , then plunged doggedly back into housework . |
| 26 | He stood for a while , watching the pyrotechnic chaos in the yard below , then moved slowly back into the banqueting hall . |
| 27 | A head appeared briefly round the corner , then ducked quickly back out of sight as Grant blazed off another shot in its direction . |
| 28 | His other tactic was to agree with me and then stand well back from whatever foolish project I 'd come up with . |
| 29 | He strode wildly round the room , and then turned violently back towards her . |
| 30 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |