Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 2 | Inexpensive cottons can be hung from rods or poles and left to hang free at the bottom , although they should be caught back over doors and windows with tie-backs . |
| 3 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 4 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 5 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 6 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 7 | Self falls under the auspices of Sun 's project Spring , which , as originally reported back in March ( UX No 377 ) , is not a replacement for Sun 's operating system , but a collection of object technologies which the company hopes it will be able to use to short circuit the evolution of Solaris and its software development environments . |
| 8 | An amount of Tennent 's Lager is then added back into Tennent 's L.A. to bring the alcoholic strength up to 0.9% vol to give it body . |
| 9 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 10 | On T V last week there was a programme , tuberculosis has come back into Britain , said it was the Asians bringing it back . |
| 11 | Donovan , the folk guru who was a git in the Sixties with grooves such as ‘ Goo Goo Barabajagal ’ and ‘ Mellow Yellow ’ , has come back into vogue . |
| 12 | Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face . |
| 13 | BBC2 's recent Rembrandt season confirms that the figure of the artist has come back into fashion . |
| 14 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 15 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 16 | would have come back at M S three . |
| 17 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , that 'll be why Boz has come back to Wychwood . |
| 19 | Well I 'm pleased to hear that it 's come back to Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 22 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 23 | This week our guest on Sharing Time is Erlend who is one of the survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster and is one who has come back to Orkney this last week , staying with his family here in Orkney . |
| 24 | His only son — well provided in those days with cash — had come back to Europe in the early ‘ thirties with little in his mind except escape . |
| 25 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 26 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 27 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 28 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 29 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 30 | Politics has come back to life as well . |