Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 2 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 3 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 4 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 5 | John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure . |
| 6 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 7 | Macnab brought back a favourable reply from Berlin on 21 August . |
| 8 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 9 | Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner . |
| 10 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 11 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 12 | For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was , and remained unthinkable . |
| 13 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 14 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 15 | Erm it , it did sort of get going but I felt that Maggie held back a little bit on that whereas you , you might have got er you know a bit , a bit more information with open questions . |
| 16 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 17 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 18 | Carrie bit back a sharp reply and instead she leaned forward across the littered table . |
| 19 | Japan was a country which had achieved ‘ modernization ’ , which could offer a model to other industrializing nations ; the militarism and aggression of the 1930s was an aberration , explicable largely in political terms , the ability of a small group to turn back the liberal trends of the twenties . |
| 20 | About four weeks ago I visited Mourneview Park to witness my team pull back a one goal deficit and win 2–1 . |
| 21 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 22 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 24 | He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement . |
| 25 | Di handed back the leased supercar recently following continuing pressure for her to drive a British model . |
| 26 | Bernice and Defries stepped back a few paces , to where Daak 's shrieking chainsword was slicing a hole in the curved wall . |
| 27 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |
| 28 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 29 | He raised a mocking dark brow as he sat back in his seat and crossed one long leg over the other , and Fran bit back a sudden urge to snap an answer at him . |
| 30 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |