Example sentences of "[verb] back the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 6 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 7 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 8 | ( e ) Bend back the lower end and use the knife to lift a sliver of pith to reveal the swelling of the embryo bud . |
| 9 | Will he also use this opportunity to give a categorical pledge that under no circumstances will he lift the ceiling on national insurance contributions , because that would , in effect , claw back the extra pay that teachers gained yesterday ? |
| 10 | That 's what you 've indicated , so how do people claw back the bad position that they were in before ? |
| 11 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 12 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 13 | When she had found the tokens she shovelled back the mingled wheat and rye , regardless , into the containers . |
| 14 | Time now to put out the stuff from the back of the shelves , holding back the normal fare until everyone is back on the treadmill again . |
| 15 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 16 | Tie off above the implant , push back the scooped-out soil and that part of the job is done . |
| 17 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 18 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 19 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 20 | Leave to dry overnight before gently bending back the waxed paper and lifting off the piped outlines with a palette knife . |
| 21 | So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought . |
| 22 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 23 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 24 | I was annoyed when came back the last time and I thought oh my goodness I hope I have n't given that woman any annoyance . |
| 25 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 26 | I pull back the candlewick bedspread and lie on my back with my manuscript . |
| 27 | From first thing in the morning , when you turn off the clock-radio , throw back the fibre-filled duvet and activate the toaster , to the end of the day when you switch the TV off and the kettle on , plastic items have become an indispensable part of our lives . |
| 28 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 29 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |