Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end Polyxena looks back as Akamas leads her away a prisoner . |
| 2 | Father Poole drew back as Myles stood before him , trembling , his glaring face twitching . |
| 3 | Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first . |
| 4 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 5 | Her choice made , she went back for vegetables to accompany it , recklessly adding a demi-kilo of the huge firm-fleshed tomatoes , as well as nectarines , oranges and a punnet of strawberries to her collection . |
| 6 | ‘ If anyone is in any doubt he can just knock the ball back for Chris to clear . ’ |
| 7 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 8 | A clearance rebounded off Cusack , Steve Gaughan beat two men and released David Cork into the box , and he pulled the ball back for Cusack to drive home . |
| 9 | He had n't fetched that key back for garage has he ? |
| 10 | You 're allowed one and one only , do they not come back for seconds do they ? |
| 11 | He loved it and although he was obedient to his great theatrical challenge and returned to Stratford , he was happy to go back after Stratford to star in Legend Of Lovers , a play by Jean Anouilh which had begun life as Eurydice . |
| 12 | Dog of the Month was Mally Woods ' High Noon Away , which came back after injury to win four and finish second in its five outings . |
| 13 | GREAT Britain international Paul Cuskin bounced back after injury to win yesterday 's Washington six-mile road race . |
| 14 | The train later made its way back towards Manchester seen crossing the B6105 at Torside — the famous signal box long since demolished , ( above ) . |
| 15 | He kept running up to the cross-street turned right back towards M slowing but glancing at his watch to excuse a half-jog |
| 16 | We unfortunately missed it , and returned by the longer forest road , although a small compensation is the view looking back of Stob Coire an Laoigh framed perfectly by the pines . |
| 17 | It will come back with questions couched in the English query language which still exists beneath the Artificial Intelligence Language stuck on top . |
| 18 | Long curtains or draperies hanging loose will look better — and different — immediately if you loop them back with tie-backs made from lengths of cord and attached to hooks fixed to the window frame . |
| 19 | Just the handling of equipment , and the new video equipment being delivered , and the hope that the division will invest in its own equipment , erm maybe it 's just a question really , do n't know if people here could help to answer it , but erm the more video equipment we have the more problems we have actually with erm just keeping it all up together , keeping it all working , and it is a constant problem with stuff being borrowed and coming back with bits missing or bits not functioning , mostly leads . |
| 20 | The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents . |
| 21 | The drive back with Jos had been silent and strained . |
| 22 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 23 | Came back with newspapers cut to size s paper patterns for cushions for , my sewing skills is NIL , ca n't do much about it . |
| 24 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |
| 25 | ( Max puts on radio earphones and leans back with eyes closed . |
| 26 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 27 | AT&T took a stab at this kind of thing awhile back with Rhapsody based on Workhorse out of Dublin . |
| 28 | Kathleen went with them , Jack followed on his bike , and they raced back with sirens wailing . |
| 29 | Yes , we need to brush up on , on analysing our problems before they get worse and getting them back into shape using our organized , organizing skills and teamwork . |
| 30 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |