Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the tax computation this amount is added back as a disallowed expense and hence the company obtains no tax relief . |
| 4 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 5 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 6 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 7 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 8 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 9 | I 've mentioned it to him and what he 's saying is come back with a firm proposal . |
| 10 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 11 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 12 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 13 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 14 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 15 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 16 | You have come back in a funny mood . |
| 17 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 18 | A mother whose blonde hair was wound back in a demure knot , but whose lips were pursed in the semblance of a kiss . |
| 19 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 20 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 21 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 22 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 23 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 24 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 25 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At that point then you were airlifted back to a hospital in Aberdeen . |
| 28 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 29 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
| 30 | However , if they are applied in a legalistic or academic manner it is only too easy for the best interests of air safety to be pushed back into a position of secondary importance . |