Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] back the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 2 | She would rally the creatures of this Castle , and the Cruithin , and drive out Medoc and beat back the Dark Ireland . |
| 3 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 4 | Katherine crossed to the window and pulled back the heavy drapes , squinting against the pale January sunlight . |
| 5 | Benjamin went across and pulled back the dead man 's head . |
| 6 | And for once Lisa managed to suppress her irritation and bit back the impatient demand for an answer that she felt instinctively rising to her lips . |
| 7 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |