Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] back the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we see there 's quite a few on the walkways , and if we know that they 're outsiders then we 'll we 'll turn round and we 'll walk back the other way . |
| 2 | With the selection of some anti-O'Neill candidates in the 1970 Stormont elections and the Westminster elections of the same year , the conservatives sensed that they could win back the Unionist Party machine . |
| 3 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 4 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 5 | On a part of Blakerigg at the foot of the gill from Blea Tarn there was a place with a fine echo , and Green imagined ‘ Music amid such wilds ! ah ! how charming , plaintive solos on the clarinet or flute would have a fine effect amongst such rocks , which during the intervals of rest , would echo back the melancholy notes in soft reverberations , and produce in the mind a union of the most pleasing sensations . ‘ |
| 6 | But they would roll back the great doors that divided the hall from the morning room , and carpets would have been lifted and floors polished , earlier in the day . |
| 7 | They intend to introduce a shift towards preventative medicine and will bring back the free eye test and dental check ups axed by the Conservatives . |
| 8 | It will set back the public status of abduction research for years , ’ Mike Wooton , the editor of the UFO Times concluded solemnly at the post-show party . |
| 9 | The partnership is a coup for Chorus , which will get back the fault-tolerant technology added to the microkernel as a standard ingredient in its Chorus Mix product . |
| 10 | … no living writer , try though he may , can bring the past back again , because no living writer can bring back the ordinary day . |
| 11 | With regard to verifying the accuracy of the published waiting times , mechanisms are in place through which general practitioners and community health councils can feed back the current situation to the health authority . |
| 12 | You can get back the gross amount of SMP you have paid out , plus an additional amount ( 4.5% of the total gross SMP from 6th April 1991 ) as compensation for the NI contributions you have paid on SMP . |