Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hair was dark brown and slicked back with Brylcreem . |
| 2 | Perhaps Flaubert 's interest was encouraged by the discovery ( or indeed the memory ) that in 1837 the king 's sarcophagus had been excavated by the British and shipped back to London . |
| 3 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 4 | Maggie comes into the pub , her hair wet and pulled back from her face . |
| 5 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 6 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 7 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 8 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 9 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 10 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 11 | Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it ! |
| 12 | The doctors and nurses who brought the sick and wounded back to Britain have dismissed claims that the whole operation was a public relations exercise . |
| 13 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 14 | She looked suddenly innocent and sat back in her seat , humming . |
| 15 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 16 | Her hair was snow-white and brushed back into a neat bun . |
| 17 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 18 | Walking over , he caught the grey and started back down the hill with both ponies . |
| 19 | But when the slogans appeared on the wall of two mosques and camel dung was dropped on the entrance of one of them they were very angry and came back to Owen and said that these were godless young and should be put down . |
| 20 | ‘ But tonight , when I hit the snake on the rope , it was angry and went back through the air-vent . |
| 21 | ‘ We duly became airborne and flew back to base with no further trouble . |
| 22 | Sadly , Stirling gave orders for much of the equipment to be off loaded and sent back to Kabrit . |
| 23 | He heard the hatch hiss open and looked back at Chang Shih-sen . |
| 24 | I snatched his sliding door open and went back into the arctic cold where I punched the button to summon the lift . |
| 25 | It flung open and slammed back against the wall . |
| 26 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 27 | She opened her blue eyes wide and smiled back at him , the curve of her mouth imitating his . |
| 28 | With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground . |
| 29 | Then he stopped dead and sat back on his haunches . |
| 30 | Some found the conflict too intense and retired back to the closet , perhaps for ever . |