Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 2 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 3 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 4 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 5 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 6 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 7 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 8 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 9 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 10 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 11 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 12 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 13 | In that year , the Norwegian Olaf and Swegan the Dane vented their fury on the shire , having been driven back from an attempt on London . |
| 14 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 15 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 16 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 17 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 18 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 19 | Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch . |
| 20 | Always cut back to an outward facing bud so that new shoots will not grow inwards toward the centre and cross each other . |
| 21 | The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work |
| 22 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 23 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 24 | In a deep trance , the subject is taken back to an earlier age , in order to discover the possible cause of a problem , such as a phobia , or a psychological reason for a physiological condition , which , on the surface , appears to have no organic cause . |
| 25 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 26 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 27 | Long hair must be held back with an elastic band : clasps and metal grips are not allowed . |
| 28 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 29 | After Nightmare in the Netherlands , it was great for me to be at a happy , good-tempered game where the sun shone brightly and we were n't held back for an hour by ugly policemen with argumentative dogs and bolshie attitudes . |