Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 2 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 3 | But that is precisely what is needed , and it is disappointing that for this reason the government has drawn back from attempting reform . |
| 4 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 5 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |