Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 2 | It would be wrong to add back the extra depreciation charge that Shaw plc has borne . |
| 3 | But it is uncertain how far Mr Rafsanjani is willing to roll back the Islamic revolution . |
| 4 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 5 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 6 | Finally they reached their destination , to find a huge crowd of silent onlookers all standing back a respectful distance and watching in mesmerised fascination as a distraught woman sobbed and screamed for help . |
| 7 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 8 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 9 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 10 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |
| 11 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |
| 12 | It is not necessary to go back a hundred years , however , in order to discover a London haunted by unusually similar fears about the leniency of the law and the terrors of the night . |
| 13 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 14 | When they both looked back a split second later the man was gone , but his face was stamped on Maura 's memory . |