Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 2 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 3 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 4 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 5 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 6 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 7 | ‘ If you remember the scene , a Voord is fighting with Ian when he gets thrown back against a wall . |
| 8 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 9 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 10 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 11 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 12 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 13 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 14 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
| 15 | Of course that is n't really allowed , but once you 've got back as a ghost , there 's not much anybody can do to stop you . |
| 16 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 17 | While a few people do not like tape recorders , others love to have what they said played back at a family party , and then argue and correct each other and make interesting extra comments . |
| 18 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 19 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 20 | It was a blue-and-white pottery bowl Peter 's mother , Kitty , had brought back from a timeshare holiday with a friend in southern Spain . |
| 21 | In my babyhood , he had asked the great Australian centre Dave Brown to let me be photographed with an enormous stuffed lion Brown had brought back from a Kangaroo tour of Great Britain . |
| 22 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 23 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 24 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 25 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
| 26 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 27 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 28 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 29 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 30 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |