Example sentences of "back a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned . |
| 2 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 3 | Webster himself commented yesterday : ‘ This is the biggest-ever Scottish team going abroad and we aim to bring back a sporranful of medals . |
| 4 | ‘ I had no idea of the time , ’ she murmured , pushing back a tendril of hair and leaning back in her chair . |
| 5 | Record a good speaker on the radio , play back a sentence and then record your own utterance of the same sentence . |
| 6 | Let us go back a minute to those leaders of men . |
| 7 | ‘ Come … come back a minute . |
| 8 | She danced away to her bedroom to dance back a minute later : " I was n't going to tell you , but I will . " |
| 9 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 10 | Erm I 'll go back a minute . |
| 11 | The sponsor , Walter Scott , commented : ‘ We 're hoping to bring back a fistful of medals and hoping that this will give the youngsters at the grass roots of sport an achievement to emulate at future Games . ’ |
| 12 | AT HOME IN LONDON , Normski plays back a song he recorded the previous evening on a four-track . |
| 13 | David must be the best company manager in the business , and our friendship goes back a decade or more . |
| 14 | It was sad and harrowing discovery for the Kazakh North-East ridge expedition — winding the clock back a decade to the tragic events of the morning of May 17 , 1982 and two tiny figures climbing steadily up the North-East ridge of Everest . |
| 15 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 16 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 17 | It 's a tragedy which will probably set us back a generation . |
| 18 | While the anti-modernist purge put this process back a generation , it could not stop it re-emerging , especially in the most advanced areas of Catholic culture in northern Europe . |
| 19 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
| 20 | You have only to look back a generation . ’ |
| 21 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't think it would be either necessary or right to keep back a reserve of money ’ , he said . |
| 23 | ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’ |
| 24 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 25 | The correct answers were : British Rail 's racing promotion is Back a winner by train ; The Classic race run at Doncaster is the Coalite St Leger . |
| 26 | It really is exciting and something which it 's difficult to express and even better if we can do something for Herefordshire and bring back a winner . |
| 27 | Slowly lower your head , slide back a yard or so , and then cast to the fish , or imagine you are casting if you have no rod with you , without allowing the rod-tip to show over the edge of the bank . |
| 28 | Back a yard or more — here where the covert is thick , someone struck him down from behind and to his left — here on the left side of the path , from ambush . ’ |
| 29 | Lindsey bit back a sigh of impatience . |
| 30 | Everthorpe fell back a pace , in exaggerated astonishment . |