Example sentences of "[adv] back in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , stupid of me , ’ Ardamal muttered , as Kreig wrapped the ear in soft plastic , placed it gently back in its box , and picked another out . |
| 2 | ONCE Kate was alone back in her flat , she lay down on her bed and let the mask slip . |
| 3 | When the group were all finally back in their minibus Rachel and David went through the now expected ritual of waving them goodbye . |
| 4 | Luke Scott was soon back in her thoughts , and it was a long time before she slept . |
| 5 | Holly saw Rudakov leaning easily back in his chair , saw the smugness on his face . |
| 6 | Watching him as he leaned easily back in his chair , studying the wine list , she found herself reluctantly examining his face with compulsive curiosity . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect Lubor is busy beavering away back in his office ? ’ she asked as a warm-up question before she got down to basics — and immediately wished that she had n't because at once Ven 's expression darkened , and as he raised an aristocratic eyebrow she knew instantly that all affability was gone . |
| 8 | Even though the ball is further back in your stance , try not to chop down into the ball . |
| 9 | For this shot you should position the ball further back in your stance and compensate by fractionally strengthening the left-hand grip . |
| 10 | He could see that his bank manager was further back in his chair , almost cowering . |
| 11 | What sustains him throughout is his recourse to certain fundamental principles of order and authority which , although they may be tangentially related to his espousal of Christianity , have their roots much further back in his own past and particularly in his early study of Bradley and Maurras . |
| 12 | He had a microphone in his hand and his eyes were set way back in his head , as if he 'd seen the Lord once too often . |
| 13 | First , from way back in his Edinburgh days and his apprenticeship to Robert Grant in invertebrate zoology , he had been much pre-occupied with comprehensive generalizations about sexual and asexual modes of generation ( Sloan , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | And the initial events do not have to have occurred way back in our childhood — last year will do . |
| 15 | Had my own heart broken by one inquisitive straight lady , way back in my desperate youth . |
| 16 | She put it quickly back in its box , and into her locked case . |
| 17 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 18 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 19 | Once back in their units , if selected for promotion to sergeant , they attend the production supervisor course which is angled much more towards management . ’ |
| 20 | He was still wearing summer clothes and , once back in his room again , the only heat was regulated by how much a tenant could afford to put into the meter — and Freddie was abysmally short of cash . |
| 21 | Once back in his hometown , however , he became edgy and defensive , especially with the local press . |
| 22 | It is n't something you easily forget , ’ he added enigmatically , and with that he turned on his heel and strode back down to his office , emerging a moment later back in his normal working clothes . |
| 23 | I put it carefully back in its envelope and gave it back to Dinwiddie , who slipped it into the pile . |
| 24 | Sladen bent carefully back in his chair and frowned at the ceiling . |
| 25 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 26 | ‘ It puts Holland right back in it , and we know they are well capable of stringing a run together . ’ |
| 27 | For a moment I was right back in my bedroom that first time . |
| 28 | The first and best example of the ‘ hard-boiled ’ thriller , with private dick Sam Spade chewing off chunks of lousy life in a lousy world , and spitting them right back in your face . |
| 29 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 30 | He and Tuppe were now back in their bedroom at The Hangman 's Arms . |