Example sentences of "back from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Morpurgo was driving two other students back from a pub . |
| 2 | The Michelin Guide to the Côte de l'Atlantique says that this eerie and impressive cavern , which communicates by a passage through the cliff to the château on the summit , was probably made in the twelfth century to shelter the relics of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem brought back from a Crusade by Pierre II of Castillon , who at that time held the château . |
| 3 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 4 | It was here , on his way back from a night club in the early hours of the morning , that he was attacked by a man with a broken bottle . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 6 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 7 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 8 | If Rome pulled further and further back from a willingness to tolerate new theologies , it was due to a not-unfounded belief that by 1970 ‘ new theology ’ meant a very different thing from what it had meant before 1960 . |
| 9 | She would be on her way back from a reading at the weekend and passing through London . |
| 10 | BACK from a cricket tour of the West Indies , Darlington photographer Ian Wright finds himself almost overtaken by letters from gizza job Barbadians . |
| 11 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Having fought his way back from a deficit of 1–2 in games , Wapnick led 5–0 in the decider , dominating the court to a point where Eyles looked done for . |
| 14 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 15 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 16 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 17 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 18 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 22 | I recently came back from a trip to Egypt and despite the fact that I enjoyed the food there , I had an urge to make a really wholesome fish pie . |
| 23 | Late that afternoon she had a telephone call from Joe Martin , just back from a trip to New York . |
| 24 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 25 | Everton came back from a goal down to beat Blackburn 2–1 . |
| 26 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |
| 29 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 30 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |