Example sentences of "[vb past] back [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 2 | Doc fondled back patients |
| 3 | ‘ Stuff you , froggy , ’ our brat-pack novelists hooted back years ago . |
| 4 | Andrew played back sections so that we could take a long , hard and critical look at our technique . |
| 5 | There was still the hard edge of annoyance in his voice and Jenna gulped back tears . |
| 6 | She gulped back tears and called to Oliver , ‘ Come on in , ca n't you ? |
| 7 | The distributors , Harman Audio , tell me that virtually every type of speaker is available , with either open or sealed back options . |
| 8 | There were seven people on board , three received back injuries , a five year old boy walked away unhurt . |
| 9 | Out of an initial tax revenue of 442 billion dinars in 1985 , the republics and provinces transferred 251 billion dinars to the federal government , but received back grants to the value of 60 billion dinars . |
| 10 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 11 | Use gel for sculptured , spiky or slicked back styles , or for crisping up fringes and pieces . |
| 12 | It seems likely that the king profited directly from this by setting a charge for the conversion of currency : you brought in , say , West Saxon pennies containing 20 ounces of silver to the mint at Quentovic , and you got back pennies of Charles containing 19 ounces of silver . |
| 13 | I think everyone who took part got a lot out of it and BNFL got back employees better for the experience . ’ |
| 14 | Frantically negotiating the traffic , Sandra choked back tears as she tried to answer her daughter 's question . |
| 15 | BOYFRIEND David Harper choked back tears yesterday as he told how he left his lover and her twin sister to die in a midnight barn blaze . |
| 16 | He choked back tears as he told how he waved her off from Heathrow , where he works . |
| 17 | Speaking about legendary Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby , Dunphy choked back tears as he said : ‘ Busby was the last football man with vision . |
| 18 | But out of sight in the galley , she gripped the rail in front of the cooker to steady herself and choked back tears of rage and frustration . |
| 19 | A DOCTOR choked back tears yesterday as he told the Beverley Allitt murder trial how a seven-week-old baby had died inexplicably . |
| 20 | She fought back tears as she blamed Nicholas Vernage not just for her husband 's murder but also for the deaths of her parents . |
| 21 | FILM star Audrey Hepburn fought back tears yesterday as she re-lived the horrors of famine-stricken Somalia . |
| 22 | Surgeons fought back tears |
| 23 | Anne Marie Phillips fought back tears as she told how she had repeatedly warned staff at the Royal Maternity Hospital that she ‘ did not like the look of the baby 's belly button ’ , which was swollen and discoloured . |
| 24 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 25 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 26 | Some of the family firms went back generations . |
| 27 | Long ones , short ones , stubby ones , in all the colours of the rainbow and some of them displaying names that went back generations in the East End . |
| 28 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |
| 29 | Rab blinked back tears and the snapper began to wail . |
| 30 | Sarah blinked back tears . |