Example sentences of "[verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him . |
| 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 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 4 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 5 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 6 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 7 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 8 | ‘ They had n't paid the interest and court fees , but we got back every single penny they owed . |
| 9 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 10 | With a repayment mortgage , you pay back a monthly sum which is not only a proportion of the outstanding debt but also interest on the remainder . |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems is apparently considering taking back every nasty thing it ever said about X terminals and entering the business . |
| 12 | who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came . |
| 13 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 14 | Alexandra bit back the unpleasant retort which rose to her lips . |
| 15 | Vincent himself was afraid of the way madness brought back a religious intensity he had felt and transmuted : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ he said slowly , put up his hand to brush back a lustrous curl which had strayed from its bonds . |