Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back at " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Norman Lamont opens his battered old red box on Tuesday , his action will signal the end of a tradition which has stretched back at least two centuries . |
| 2 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 3 | Cleveland County fire officer Bill Cooney has hit back at criticism of the service . |
| 4 | A DOCTOR has hit back at claims a national medical conference will be turned into a political issue . |
| 5 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 6 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 7 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 8 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 9 | The girl in the mirror was a total contrast to the haunted image which had stared back at her a few hours earlier . |
| 10 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 11 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 12 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 13 | He smiled and looked down , remembering that moment in the machine when she had glared back at him . |
| 14 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 15 | And Davide had smiled back at his friend , with a confused look . |
| 16 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 17 | She quoted him : on one occasion when the Princess had waved him away , pleading a cold , he had breathed back at her , ‘ It would be a privilege to catch a cold of yours . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 20 | When eventually she had arrived back at Briar Cottage , there had been no concealing her distress from Bess Halidon . |
| 21 | They had arrived back at camp before breakfast and when he greeted his mother , Joseph had wondered with a sudden stab of alarm if she could tell . |
| 22 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 23 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 24 | The Spanish Civil War was a mirror into which men gazed and had cast back at them not a picture of reality but the image of hope and fears of their generation . |
| 25 | They had held back at Milfield on the Till , biding their time , until their scouts came in with exact information of the movement of the Scots army . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , RADIO 5 have hit back at allegations in The Sunday Times that the station is to close . |
| 27 | But the management of Kelly 's have hit back at what they feel is unwarranted criticism . |
| 28 | ( ANN ) Teachers of the pioneering Peto system for children with cerebral palsy have hit back at the suggestion it may be a waste of money . |
| 29 | THE fish and chip women of Barnard Castle have hit back at claims that ladies serving Britain 's best-loved dish are traditionally fat and ugly . |
| 30 | HOSPITAL fund raisers have hit back at claims that they were staging a begging plea in a bid to find more cash . |