Example sentences of "back from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 2 | The home environment is private , you do n't have to drive back from the vets when you are upset and your pet is likely to be more relaxed because his is in familiar surroundings with the people he loves . |
| 3 | But I would suggest to you that we need to press Rentakil and say , you know you the conditions of the guarantee we feel we 'd comply with , and wait until we get anything back from the solicitors , before we do anything else . |
| 4 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 5 | But as the news leaked back from the trenches of the horror and futile brutality of the Great War , the mood changed to one of sorrow and mistrust , and even an old trouper like Baden-Powell could not hide his feelings . |
| 6 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 7 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 8 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 9 | When he drew the curtain back from the windows , he was smiling . |
| 10 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 11 | Back from the riverbanks , men in gallibayas glided through orchards of apricot trees . |
| 12 | As the cage descended , Tolonen raised a hand in greeting , but stayed where he was , just back from the others waiting there — maintenance crew , customs men and guards . |
| 13 | They stood a little way back from the others as though unsure of their right to be there at all , and they were in bizarre contrast to the rest of the mourners . |
| 14 | They should get out and cut the trees back from the lines so they do n't have the problem . |
| 15 | ( See appendix letter 3 and letter 4 which shows the reply which came back from the parents . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 17 | Bless him , he went away with the promise of a full sitting when I 'd got my face back from the cleaners . |
| 18 | It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you have n't worn since it came back from the cleaners . |
| 19 | When he saw us coming back from the movies every Sunday , discussing the film , he would say , ‘ I do n't believe it . |
| 20 | That day , as we waited for the doctor to come back from the mountains , was one of deep anxiety for the whole family . |
| 21 | Yeremi had already recognized those still-distant weapons because of the magnetic vortex fins sweeping back from the muzzles , like twin wings tipped with engine pods , and the flat round top-mounted magazines . |
| 22 | She was the first to get to get to know about the lady whose husband was coming back from the Forces . |
| 23 | Major Burrows , back from the forces , nearly put paid to both plans . |
| 24 | fears I er I 'm coming back from the forces I went into the main job , taking over from the previous scheduled clerk by breaking the schedules and the duties . |
| 25 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 26 | Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled . |
| 27 | There was page after page of it , brought back from the courts and council meetings , filling the notebooks stacked on his shared desk . |
| 28 | I was coming back from the labs at Menelaus , after some work detail or other . |
| 29 | Agnes was expecting her second now and Kenneth , back from the wars was re-installed in the upper levels of the department store in Buchanan Street . |
| 30 | When Howard and I were attacked on our way back from the hills , two of the men were carrying Lugers — they 're unmistakable . ’ |