Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure . |
| 2 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 3 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 4 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 5 | For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was , and remained unthinkable . |
| 6 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 7 | Japan was a country which had achieved ‘ modernization ’ , which could offer a model to other industrializing nations ; the militarism and aggression of the 1930s was an aberration , explicable largely in political terms , the ability of a small group to turn back the liberal trends of the twenties . |
| 8 | About four weeks ago I visited Mourneview Park to witness my team pull back a one goal deficit and win 2–1 . |
| 9 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 10 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 11 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |
| 12 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 13 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 14 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 15 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 16 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 17 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 18 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 19 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 20 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 21 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 22 | The man shuffled back a few paces , bent almost double . |
| 23 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 24 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 25 | After a while , Sky sent back a polite letter of rejection . |
| 26 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 27 | She used the cloth to slide back a hot glass plate and extract a rather tired looking object . |
| 28 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 29 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ he said slowly , put up his hand to brush back a lustrous curl which had strayed from its bonds . |