Example sentences of "[verb] back the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district . |
| 2 | He drew back the groaning bolts and turned the rusty iron ring , and the door opened inwards with a protesting creak . |
| 3 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 4 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 5 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 6 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 7 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 8 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 9 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 10 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 11 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 12 | ( e ) Bend back the lower end and use the knife to lift a sliver of pith to reveal the swelling of the embryo bud . |
| 13 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 14 | In addition to explaining the risks of financial loss , the warning notice also explains a number of key aspects of the operation of futures markets which may not be readily apparent to the private investor such as : ( 1 ) The treatment of collateral and the fact that a customer may lose a proprietary interest in the collateral and not receive back the same assets that he deposited . |
| 15 | Will he also use this opportunity to give a categorical pledge that under no circumstances will he lift the ceiling on national insurance contributions , because that would , in effect , claw back the extra pay that teachers gained yesterday ? |
| 16 | That 's what you 've indicated , so how do people claw back the bad position that they were in before ? |
| 17 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 18 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 19 | When she had found the tokens she shovelled back the mingled wheat and rye , regardless , into the containers . |
| 20 | Time now to put out the stuff from the back of the shelves , holding back the normal fare until everyone is back on the treadmill again . |
| 21 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 22 | Tie off above the implant , push back the scooped-out soil and that part of the job is done . |
| 23 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 24 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 25 | Belinda laughed , blinking back the sudden tears that had started to her eyes , and hoping that Tom had not seen them . |
| 26 | Juliet sat rigidly in her seat , biting back the frustrated tears that constricted her throat . |
| 27 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 28 | Leave to dry overnight before gently bending back the waxed paper and lifting off the piped outlines with a palette knife . |
| 29 | So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought . |
| 30 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |