Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 6 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 7 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 8 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
| 9 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |
| 10 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 11 | Always cut back to an outward facing bud so that new shoots will not grow inwards toward the centre and cross each other . |
| 12 | Other less clear-cut chances were also smashed back by a Springbok side which continues to make the most of their discipline despite having less ball and creating fewer chances than the opposition . |
| 13 | This information is electronically mailed back to a central Sun MicrosystemsInc database and a Compaq personal computer , held in Computer News Services ' offices . |
| 14 | This information is electronically mailed back to a central Sun Microsystems Inc database and a Compaq personal computer , held in Computer News Services ' offices . |
| 15 | Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties . |
| 16 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 17 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 18 | It has now reverted back to a quiet village , disturbed only at weekends by visitors from surrounding areas who come to fish , walk the frontage and watch the departure or arrival of passenger ferries and other shipping . |
| 19 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke said he understood his staff were simply referred back to a January meeting with Mrs Shephard 's predecessor Michael Howard . |
| 21 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 22 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 23 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 24 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 25 | Now effectively shy of two of those founders , it has essentially retracted back to a die-hard core of some two dozen companies from a highly publicised swell of some 250 industry lights . |