Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 2 | A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet . |
| 3 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 4 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 5 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 6 | At Milton Keynes Magistrates Court today the youth was remaded back into the care of the local authority and is again in the childrens home … |
| 7 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 8 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 9 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 10 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 11 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 12 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 13 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 14 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 15 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 16 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 17 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 18 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 19 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 20 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 21 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 22 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 23 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 24 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 25 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 26 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 27 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 28 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 29 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 30 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |