Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 4 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Di handed back the leased supercar recently following continuing pressure for her to drive a British model . |
| 9 | As they paddled in silence , Delaney bit back the rising ache in his throat . |
| 10 | Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him . |
| 11 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 12 | Alexandra bit back the unpleasant retort which rose to her lips . |
| 13 | Determined not to play into his hands , Luce bit back the curious questions , and simply waited . |
| 14 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 15 | Four times a day , the nurse pulled back the white cover , turned Dot on her side , pulled up the gown and thrust the needle in with the savage pain of a bayonet . |
| 16 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 17 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |