Example sentences of "step back from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face . |
| 2 | He stepped back from the microphone and lowered his gaze , lost in painful emotion . |
| 3 | He stepped back from the window and rejoined the German . |
| 4 | Herbie stepped back from the outraged young giant . |
| 5 | Mitch stepped back from the door . |
| 6 | Finished , he stepped back from the aircraft . |
| 7 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 8 | He stepped back from the door . |
| 9 | Finally she stepped back from the table to admire her handiwork . |
| 10 | Dowd stepped back from the dying man as if slapped . |
| 11 | The watchman stepped back from the wicket-gate . |
| 12 | Patrick stepped back from the door in shock as a tall , broad shouldered man pushed his way in . |
| 13 | She stepped back from the chair , and pointed to a nearby footstool . |
| 14 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 15 | The Doctor stepped back from the device as Petion entered , but his welcoming words died on his lips as he saw the liveried servant who followed Petion in , a machete held loosely and comfortably in his hand with the certainty of one who knows how to use it . |
| 16 | Finally convinced Seb knew nothing , Boz stepped back from the ladder . |
| 17 | Peggy stepped back from the old woman . |
| 18 | He stepped back from the banisters . |
| 19 | Practise this also in reverse mode , stepping back from the attack and simultaneously moving out of line . |
| 20 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 23 | Stepping back from the autopsy she was performing , Dr Ingrid Karnstein unfolded the paper to read the message . |
| 24 | Stepping back from the hurly-burly of political combat , I suppose all the tussles of the last 15 years have been about weaning our politicians off the romance of a benevolent , let alone competent , state . |
| 25 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |
| 26 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |
| 27 | He shrewdly steps back from the action , turning his narrative into a clever mosaic of stories from the edgy extremes of urban life . |
| 28 | But some sort of step back from the brink was essential . |
| 29 | The creation of the system was interpreted by Bilson [ 1979 ] as : " … the first step back from the rugged individualism and national self-interest that lay behind the formal acceptance of flexible exchange rates at the Jamaica meetings of the International Monetary Fund in January 1976 . " |
| 30 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |