Example sentences of "[verb] back the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda . |