Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back the [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 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Di handed back the leased supercar recently following continuing pressure for her to drive a British model . |
| 15 | As they paddled in silence , Delaney bit back the rising ache in his throat . |
| 16 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 17 | Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him . |
| 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 | That 's what you 've indicated , so how do people claw back the bad position that they were in before ? |
| 20 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 21 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 22 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 23 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 24 | Canvassers who normally get the forms back after a maximum of four visits to any household are now having to return seven or more times before the people hand back the completed form . |
| 25 | Suddenly the pressure was off Mr Kaifu to take back the tainted men . |
| 26 | Alexandra bit back the unpleasant retort which rose to her lips . |
| 27 | Determined not to play into his hands , Luce bit back the curious questions , and simply waited . |
| 28 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 29 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 30 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |