Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 2 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 3 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 4 | Under the circumstances , with the band far keener to slope off and mope back at the hotel , the gig goes remarkably well . |
| 5 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 6 | Yet the incident may have been deliberately provoked : some of the demonstrators were armed , and fired back at the police . |
| 7 | He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six . |
| 8 | The Volvo tour takes in solidly Socialist villages like Senghenydd and Abertridwr , includes a couple of detours for navigational error ( ‘ I 'm new here ’ says Stan ) and ends back at the station with just seconds before the train departs . |
| 9 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 10 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 11 | Culley half-rose , but Cattini put out a hand to stop him , and glanced back at the barman who lifted a bottle and dug a highball glass into an ice-container . |
| 12 | He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force . |
| 13 | That poor unfortunate had to stoke the fire , pump the tilly lamps , dash upstream to unblock the water pipe , boil the kettle — on the open fire — and arrive back at the card table an exhausted , nervous wreck . |
| 14 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 15 | Andrew felt his heart turn over and looked back at the view so that she should n't see what she was doing to him . |
| 16 | He turned and looked back at the half-covered clinic , at the low exposed walls of the animal house . |
| 17 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 18 | They turned quickly and looked back at the city . |
| 19 | ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them . |
| 20 | Lambert stared , and looked back at the balloon . |
| 21 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 22 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 23 | The corner shop comes into view , with JJ 's ugly mug peering round it , and jerking back at the sight of me , and I am killing myself with laughter inside as Miss Plum and I walk right past , together . |
| 24 | She turned round and pointed back at the Victorian building with the campanile chimney . |
| 25 | In the end , of course , the theory is that the bird gets used to the food being there and comes back at the wag of a finger . |
| 26 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 27 | An unopened pod taken from the tree will keep for at least three weeks , and when opened back at the nursery it is usual to obtain 100 per cent germination of the seed . |