Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I put back the receiver and climbed upstairs . |
| 2 | At four o'clock they fed back the feelings of the workers to the convener , and at five minutes past four , Clasper took the giant plant out on strike , advising the Personnel and Plant Managers that they would n't return until the sacked shop steward had been re-instated . |
| 3 | Somehow she bit back the words and said , ‘ Will you please let go of me ? ’ |
| 4 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 5 | Soon they rolled back the carpet and had a dance . |
| 6 | Had n't they hurled back the Mongols from their frontiers and defeated the invasion forces of the Sung and Ming emperors ? |
| 7 | Then I take back the paper . |
| 8 | Then I pass back the gun . |
| 9 | Then she folded back the top of the shift . |
| 10 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 11 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 12 | ‘ At the time it was a shock , but afterwards when I looked back the signs had been there . |
| 13 | Sadly I turned back the pages and returned the ledger to Miss Louise 's lap . |
| 14 | We stand there with two choices : either we turn back the way we came — which may be safer but ai n't gon na get us far — or we go straight ahead past the police van , pretending we are lawfully about our business . |
| 15 | Everything that I do The other night when we came back the streets were deserted . |
| 16 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |