Example sentences of "[to-vb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no sound outside and he tried again : now with both of his hands , one to steady up the other , to work back the locking door-holt . |
| 2 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 3 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 4 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 5 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 6 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 7 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 8 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 9 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 10 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 11 | This was augmented by Hastings 's conversion and two penalties , and only now , with more than a quarter of the match gone , did France pull themselves together and begin to pull back the Lions ' lead . |
| 12 | After reassessing the situation , however , the Brigade Commander decided to pull back the battlegroup and move it into temporary hides . |
| 13 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 14 | The axe kick 1 : begin to pull back the leg . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a double-action revolver , which means you have to pull back the hammer to cock it before firing . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't intend to eavesdrop , I thought he 'd gone and forgotten to pull back the curtains . |
| 17 | Let's face it … ’ he reached to smooth back the curtain of tousled gold curls from her eyes ‘ … we hardly know each other . |
| 18 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 19 | What this appeal is concerned with , however , is only the landlord 's obligation to repay once the lease has expired without breach of covenant , there being neither any obligation on the original landlord to pay over the amount of the deposit to an assignee of the reversion nor any obligation on the original tenant to assign to an assignee of the term his contractual right to receive back the amount of the deposit when and if the condition for its repayment is fulfilled … |
| 20 | To revert to an old style would be to try to set back the clock and deny the progress which had been made and made under divine providence . |
| 21 | For large numbers come into the criminal justice system unnecessarily , erm that is likely to set back the progress which was made during the nineteen eighties and er increase and reinforce criminality . |
| 22 | When executive search consultants leave or retire , they are forced to sell back the equity to other partners who , on election to the partnership , are encouraged to purchase stock at an agreed rate . |
| 23 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , at the age of 34 , is unofficial favourite to win back the National Top 12 title at Clacton-on-Sea today from Alan Cooke . |
| 24 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 25 | The analogy with the Falklands crisis and the Falklands ‘ spirit ’ looks all too obvious now : true blue , white British boys , determined to win back the ‘ burglar 's spoils ’ , set out to defend the bridgehead deep inside ‘ enemy territory ’ . |
| 26 | He set about raising all army of his own to win back the lands lost in the recent campaign . |
| 27 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 28 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 29 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 30 | The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents . |