Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 2 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 3 | It 's not unknown to eventually track back the source of rumour and confusion to events at ‘ Grange Hill ’ . |
| 4 | O K , erm , and you do have to actually pay back the premiums other people would stop and start them at random . |
| 5 | Rodrigo , by now widely known as El Cid Campeador ( the battler ) , was recalled to favour and proceeded at once to drive back the invaders . |
| 6 | ‘ They were losing about 10 per cent of their profit by not claiming back the tax , and no Japanese businessman does that . ’ |