Example sentences of "[verb] back from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies .
2 Report back from the seminars
3 Report back from the seminars
4 Report back from the seminars
5 Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth .
6 Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU .
7 ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case .
8 Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’
9 The Arts : Lenny stands back from the brink of bathos
10 This is Sonnet 94 , ‘ which at no point addresses the Friend directly , stands back from the group much as a contemplative soliloquy does from the dialogue of a play ’ .
11 THE CATHEDRAL at Lyon stands back from the bank of the Saone , and , from the other side of the river , is half hidden by bland blocks of flats .
12 He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge .
13 While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two .
14 so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him .
15 We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop .
16 One of the most moving is the Common Riding at Selkirk , whose Flodden memorial with its inscription O , Flodden Field recalls the single local survivor who staggered back from the battle with an English standard , now lodged in the town museum .
17 Painfully , Athelstan drew back from the precipice of doubt and depression .
18 On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha .
19 I remember Status Quo 's ‘ Down Down ’ , though , and was disappointed that Cud drew back from an attempt at reproducing Quo 's perfect repetition .
20 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 .
21 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 ’ .
22 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 .
23 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
24 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 .
25 The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink .
26 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 .
27 Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to .
28 But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's .
29 ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
30 I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy .
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