Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] back [prep] " 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 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 3 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 4 | " There 's nothing of value in the Chinese room — it 's only junk my great-uncle brought back on his travels — tourist stuff . |
| 5 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 6 | The election of 1979 seemed to mark something of a return to " normal " in that third parties had their vote cut back to less than 20 per cent and they were only able to secure twenty-seven seats . |
| 7 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 8 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | the sky 's last brightness given back by water , |
| 11 | The tap is then closed and the stopper placed back on the tube to prevent release or contamination of the air . |
| 12 | ( ACT carried back against pre-17 March 1987 periods can only be offset against a company 's income — ie excluding capital gains . ) |
| 13 | He wore the usual faded , dun-coloured every-day clothes of the peasant and labourer , coarse woollen chausses and short homespun tunic , with a capuchon pushed back from his head and dangling at his back ; but the belt that circled his hips was of finely-tooled leather , and had straps to attach both sword and dagger , though he wore neither ; and his boots were knee-high , and also of soft leather , no doubt hand-worked somewhere in Wales , from native deerskin . |
| 14 | Grotesque bunches of fingers waggled their shadows against the wall near her face , the ceiling peeled back like a tin lid . |
| 15 | The climb-out is shallow ( about 300 ft/min ) and flown at 50kts with the engine pulled back to 2250 rpm to conserve it a little — max rpm ( and thus 38hp ) is at 2625 rpm . |
| 16 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 17 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 18 | It is a large-scale data collection and analysis exercise begun back in the early 1960s by the General Electric Company . |
| 19 | The loop is now formed around the bobbin case , and the thread drawn back through the needle by the take-up lever usually found on the front of the machine . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was just a girl with a sweet smile and a pretty face , her hair drawn back into some kind of fishnet behind . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was small , obviously frail , with silvery-white hair drawn back from her face and secured in a knot at the nape of her neck . |
| 24 | Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip . |
| 25 | They may be entirely acceptable procedures in nature reserves with clearly defined goals , but not in a place given back to nature . |
| 26 | Although efforts to form a joint sports team dated back to 1963 — when the two countries discussed the possibility of joint participation in the 1964 Olympic Games — no consensus had ever been achieved . |
| 27 | Mr Pigdon started , his attention drawn back from the threatening sky . |
| 28 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 29 | WHAT MEMORIES the Echo article brought back about the evacuation . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |