Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 2 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 3 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 4 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 5 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 6 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 7 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 8 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 9 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 10 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 11 | By that time , the footballers of Halifax Town may have climbed back into the big league . |
| 12 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 13 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 14 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
| 15 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 16 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 19 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 20 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 21 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 22 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 23 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 24 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 25 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 26 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 27 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 28 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
| 29 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |