Example sentences of "the [noun] roll back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Zeebrugge and Ostend had not been taken , nor the enemy rolled back . |
| 2 | She banished the horrible image from her mind ; the contorted face , the eyes rolling back as Irina fell after the blow to her head . |
| 3 | Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state . |
| 4 | A decision tree can now be drawn as in Figure 5.5 , the above probabilities entered on the appropriate branches and the pay-offs rolled back . |
| 5 | A decision tree can now be drawn as in Figure 5.5 , the above probabilities entered on the appropriate branches and the pay-offs rolled back . |
| 6 | The gloom rolled back until I could see six or seven huts : they were grass-roofed , mean little constructions of board and lath , surrounded by muddy pools by which dozens of small black pigs were wagging their corkscrew tails and chasing each other over the cliffs . |
| 7 | On the one hand , there is the threat to roll back the legislation of the last 12 years , to put the trade unions back in the driving seat and make strikes easier , longer , more frequent and more damaging than ever before . |
| 8 | She was barefoot and wearing a man 's shirt over jeans , the sleeves rolled back on her thin arms . |
| 9 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 10 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 11 | He had changed into a cotton shirt with the sleeves rolled back and a pair of faded black jeans that hugged the contours of his body . |
| 12 | He was dressed in a pair of faded black jeans and a striped blue shirt with the sleeves rolled back . |
| 13 | Despite herself , she felt the clouds roll back . |