Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] back the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 2 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 3 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 4 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 5 | Canvassers who normally get the forms back after a maximum of four visits to any household are now having to return seven or more times before the people hand back the completed form . |
| 6 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 7 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 8 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 9 | The headmaster pulled back the top right-hand drawer and |
| 10 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 11 | Four times a day , the nurse pulled back the white cover , turned Dot on her side , pulled up the gown and thrust the needle in with the savage pain of a bayonet . |
| 12 | He and Kelly had only been together five minutes but the photographs brought back the full nightmarish shame of it all . |
| 13 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 14 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 15 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |