Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] back a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up . |
| 2 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 3 | and it 's beginning to grow back a little bit . |
| 4 | As home-brewing returns , some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition . |
| 5 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 6 | I hope that a general election will be declared soon , that it will be fair , and that it will serve to bring back a decent system . |
| 7 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 8 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 9 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 10 | Develop a thick skin , harden her heart , learn to bite back a stinging retort and invest in a good supply of patience ! |