Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canvassers who normally get the forms back after a maximum of four visits to any household are now having to return seven or more times before the people hand back the completed form . |
| 2 | Ruth Batsford , of the council 's electoral registration office , said : ‘ We really do n't have an explanation why people are n't sending the forms back . |
| 3 | We 'll keep the crowds back as you wash your dirty linen in public . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Will he now take action to reactivate our shipyards so that the nation may once again fund the sort of merchant fleet that should be the priority of a maritime nation , and put the seamen back to work ? ’ . |
| 5 | In seconds , a pack of police , twenty deep , was fighting a shower of stones to hold the pickets back . |
| 6 | The answering roar blenched the flames back and cleared the face of the sun for an instant . |
| 7 | If you use forum theatre , or interrogate some still image presentations , you do n't even need to push the desks back . |
| 8 | ‘ Under the Companies Act , we are entitled to take such action if more than 10 per cent of the shareholders back the application . |
| 9 | If I were still at Bewick , I should still have my vision of myself quite obliterated by your violent view of how I should be , but I am free now and you can not put the chains back on , it is too late , I am growing up . ’ |
| 10 | Several hundred Kurds picketed the Home Office in protest at the continuing detentions and the deportations back to Turkey where they are said to face oppression and torture . |
| 11 | It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit . |
| 12 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 13 | It 's smashing walking along this track because it 's firm underfoot and the views back to Malham and over to Great Scar and Attermire are worth nine out of ten in anybody 's book . |
| 14 | We are particularly anxious to bring the courts back into use for the 1993 season , so we would be most grateful if the application could be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 15 | This is what it was all about , to push the Germans back , mile by mile , no matter how long or what dreadful toll it might take , until they were safely confined behind their own boundaries again . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , there were great victories in Eastern Europe , where in 1943–4 the Russians pushed the Germans back along a 1600-kilometre front ( CORE , pp. 69–70 ) . |
| 17 | He did n't want the Germans back . |
| 18 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 19 | Ralemberg pushed the coins back at me . |
| 20 | No it 's just that they take ages and ages and ages cos Dundee will ask Nottingham , Nottingham will ask us to bring the notes back , then we 'll send them to Nottingham , Nottingham will send them to Dundee , Dundee will send them to your G P . |
| 21 | The black van was parked under a palm tree waiting to take the prisoners back to the Murate . |
| 22 | The US flew in CH-47 Chinook helicopters to transport the prisoners back to Saudi Arabia . |
| 23 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 24 | He telephoned a Sunday request to London for a Monday Cabinet , sent the proposals back overnight by a Foreign Office official , and left for Switzerland . |
| 25 | Erm who was able to hold er the Russians back from intervening on the grounds that it would be er seen as intervention in a er in in in a revolt . |
| 26 | I rode with them in the cab ( we tossed the oneliners back and forth ) — to our destination . |
| 27 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 28 | ‘ They keep pushing the operations back and back , ’ he said . |
| 29 | She bent the fingers back . |
| 30 | She smiled suddenly , and the smile set her eyes dancing and brought the dimples back to her cheeks . |