Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] 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 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Our exercise periods were indeed much longer now and I padded around the room as much as I could , but Brian would often get bored and go back to a book . |
| 12 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 13 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |
| 14 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 15 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 16 | And if you ca n't stand the heat get out quick and come back to it . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | If you get stuck , leave a blank and come back to that section later . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 21 | She looked suddenly innocent and sat back in her seat , humming . |
| 22 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 23 | Her hair was snow-white and brushed back into a neat bun . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Come on ; do n't just lie there , ’ Andy said matter-of-factly , leaving his cock alone and lying back in the grass , putting his arm behind his head and staring up at the sky . |
| 26 | Walking over , he caught the grey and started back down the hill with both ponies . |
| 27 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ But tonight , when I hit the snake on the rope , it was angry and went back through the air-vent . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe it is time for me to get angry and fight back at those who are fighting me , ’ she said . |