Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 2 | The unspoken aggression of this evening had brought back the nightmare because with him she had gone further than mere temper . |
| 3 | She bit — savagely at her cuticles again , and McLeish had to fight back the urge to yell at her to stop , for God 's sake . |
| 4 | THE KILLING of 11 Royal Marines bandsmen in the Deal Barracks explosion had put back the cause of the IRA , Dr Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury , said during the memorial service to the victims at Canterbury Cathedral yesterday . |
| 5 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 6 | Her first sight of a submarine had brought back the pain of Gerry 's death and she 'd had to tell herself that those in the loch were ours , so they could n't be all that bad . |
| 7 | After reassessing the situation , however , the Brigade Commander decided to pull back the battlegroup and move it into temporary hides . |
| 8 | In the past , the relatively unsophisticated consumer market and a dependence on cheap office giveaways at Christmas tended to hold back the market in the UK ( as opposed to more sophisticated markets in the US and Europe ) . |