Example sentences of "back [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company puts back controversial plan for waste incinerator . |
| 2 | With three sets of windows serving five levels , the lower mezzanine floor was held back 1.2 metres from the outside walls to avoid the ugly juxtaposition of window and floor edge . |
| 3 | We are now in the game of cutting back unnecessary changes |
| 4 | Since publication of our book Eighteenth-century English Furniture : The Norman Adams Collection we have bought back eleven pieces as a direct result of Americans seeing their furniture illustrated therein . |
| 5 | And that could mean the end for the peace camp which dates back eleven years . |
| 6 | 1992 , 28 , 30 ) brought back pleasant reading memories . |
| 7 | The process has also involved a degree of cautious political liberalisation to attract back Iranian exiles and their funds . |
| 8 | We were also very pleased to welcome back retired employees , , and , who returned for the farewell . |
| 9 | We need to know that all those who are taken on as interpreters by the Home Office are responsible people and will not pass back that kind of information . |
| 10 | You handed me back that money , remember ? |
| 11 | But Adam had this idea of phoning his mother to tell her he would n't be back that night . |
| 12 | Toby did n't come back that night , or all the next day . |
| 13 | We were at at there , and I went with er with my father er on a Friday and we came back that night . |
| 14 | If the roads were clear when they came out of the meeting they would travel back that night . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought he 'd be back that night but he was there till Friday because he reached the semi-finals ! |
| 16 | He had got back that night , had n't he ? |
| 17 | And Shelley lay back that night , watching the fan sway round and round above her , and wishing that Rosie 's certainty had n't been quite so fervent . |
| 18 | Dash back that ocean with a pier , |
| 19 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 20 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 21 | And these are sorts of facilities which we 'll will need if we 're going to erm enable central I S or I T departments to use and therefore charge back that facility to each of the departments using that resource . |
| 22 | I know the station 's on one side , cos there 's light coming from there , so I go back that way . |
| 23 | ‘ Back that way , sir , ’ one of the squad volunteered , barely intelligible through his mask , and McLeish saw her , twenty yards away , walking back slowly towards them , head bowed . |
| 24 | Then he added , ‘ Nowadays , when the shepherds come back that way in spring , they prod every square inch of snow with sticks in search of buried frozen tār . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll go back that way . |
| 26 | ‘ Back that way . ’ |
| 27 | So the forward , function is Y equals X squared , which always gives you a positive and then the function comes back , it 's coming back that way , |
| 28 | Er but er y they sort of got their money back that way . |
| 29 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 30 | When you talk about this split , fifty-fifty , could we go back that way . |