Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the other semi-final , Marine , of the HFS Loans League , will be confident of reaching Wembley after pulling back a 2–0 deficit at Witton Albion . |
| 2 | Of pushing back every natural instinct . |
| 3 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 4 | Having proved myself incapable of holding back an irresistible force , I now know exactly how Canute felt . |
| 5 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 6 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 7 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 8 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 9 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 10 | However , the success of societies in winning back a bigger market share of mortgage business from the banks was highlighted by the increase in gross home loan advances to £4,157million , a figure topped only once during 1989 . |
| 11 | First , in the large majority of civil law systems a dispossessed owner is barred from claiming back a stolen work of art after a given number of years if the purchaser is in good faith . |
| 12 | Schemes vary , but usually you keep on your mortgage by holding back a nominal amount , say £1 . |
| 13 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 14 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |