Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] back from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 2 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh no , I 've pulled back from that . |
| 4 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 5 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 6 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 7 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 8 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 9 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 10 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 11 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 12 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 13 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 14 | She had known Sam all her life and though he was a worthy and hard-working man , she knew why she had held back from agreeing to marry him . |
| 15 | It was a cruel blow for Blackburn , who had bounced back from Sunday 's Coca-Cola Cup semi-final defeat at Hillsborough to twice lead through Steve Livingstone and Mike Newell . |
| 16 | In 1981 , for example , a jockey who had fought back from the depths of cancer partnered a horse which had twice spent months with a hind leg in plaster . |
| 17 | Indeed , the understrength Lithuanians , who had fought back from two down to get their first Group Three point in Belfast , could have inflicted similar embarrassment on the Republic . |
| 18 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 20 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 21 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 22 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 23 | She 's got back from er , Tunisia . |
| 24 | Who , who 's come back from Malta . |
| 25 | And the former Rangers and Aston Villa winger said : ‘ We 've come back from this kind of position before and we are optimistic we can get a result . |
| 26 | well at night when we 've come back from wherever we 've been with Wendy , it was a ritual to walk round , cos on the , on the |
| 27 | Perhaps the greatest tribute to the system 's aesthetic capabilities was provided by the ex-editor of Classical Music who , some weeks after the changeover from traditional to electronic , asked Tony Gamble why they had changed back from ITC Clearface to the original Times . |
| 28 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 29 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |
| 30 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |