Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 2 | Of course , nobody has gone that far into space and sampled stardust to come back with a bag full of diamonds . |
| 3 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 4 | Convinced that the Chinese communists were supplying the Vietcong ( Communist guerrillas of South Vietnam ) , the Eisenhower administration increased its aid to Diem and sent several hundred " advisers " to organize the army of South Vietnam , though the President drew back from a full commitment of US forces . |
| 5 | Yes , I I Councillor is quite right , I mean it is a new new departure to centre these panels in the neighbourhoods , it was always our intention to come back after a a period had elapsed er , we , with the new system to bring to members attention the success or otherwise of the neighbourhood panels . |
| 6 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 7 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 8 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 9 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 10 | A lined mouth stretched back in a screech . |
| 11 | He resigned himself and let the car drift back to a comfortable fifty-yard gap . |
| 12 | Rosslyn Park came back with a penalty ; 3-3 . |
| 13 | Even if several mouse embryos are pushed together so that they fuse and this large mass transferred back into a mother a normal mouse will still develop . |
| 14 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 15 | ( The battalion got back from a six-month tour there in April — our second Caribbean posting in nine years . ) |
| 16 | He noted the awed curiosity on the younger man 's face on hearing his name , but the boy came back with a swift answer . |
| 17 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 18 | Grotesque bunches of fingers waggled their shadows against the wall near her face , the ceiling peeled back like a tin lid . |
| 19 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 20 | She remembered Con coming back with a doctor she had never seen before . |
| 21 | The indicator light above the visor edged back to a normal reading . |
| 22 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 23 | It was only when at last the girl sat back with a sigh of satisfaction , apparently replete , that he ventured to address her , his tone unwontedly gentle . |
| 24 | Then she noticed a vast woman with a swarthy dead-pan face and black hair drawn back into a bun , who was standing near the O'Briens with grimly folded arms . |
| 25 | At the RSPCA 's Centenary Conference in Oxford , a tall slim woman with greying hair drawn back in a pony tail , unobtrusively dressed in a shirt and slacks , came to the podium . |
| 26 | Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip . |
| 27 | Hector squealed as the trap lifted a fraction , but Theda quickly drew the foot out and the trap sprung back with a clang . |
| 28 | Fael-Inis regarded the Lad quite coolly , and at length he said in an amused voice , ‘ So , jackal , we face one another again , and fight for a soul , ’ and the Lad drew back with a snarl , his eyes showing red . |
| 29 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |
| 30 | The panic was receding again , physical need surging back with a vengeance . |