Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] back the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 2 | If we see there 's quite a few on the walkways , and if we know that they 're outsiders then we 'll we 'll turn round and we 'll walk back the other way . |
| 3 | With the selection of some anti-O'Neill candidates in the 1970 Stormont elections and the Westminster elections of the same year , the conservatives sensed that they could win back the Unionist Party machine . |
| 4 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 5 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 6 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 7 | So they said they would come back the next week and see what I thought . |
| 8 | On a part of Blakerigg at the foot of the gill from Blea Tarn there was a place with a fine echo , and Green imagined ‘ Music amid such wilds ! ah ! how charming , plaintive solos on the clarinet or flute would have a fine effect amongst such rocks , which during the intervals of rest , would echo back the melancholy notes in soft reverberations , and produce in the mind a union of the most pleasing sensations . ‘ |
| 9 | But they would roll back the great doors that divided the hall from the morning room , and carpets would have been lifted and floors polished , earlier in the day . |
| 10 | They intend to introduce a shift towards preventative medicine and will bring back the free eye test and dental check ups axed by the Conservatives . |
| 11 | It will set back the public status of abduction research for years , ’ Mike Wooton , the editor of the UFO Times concluded solemnly at the post-show party . |
| 12 | The partnership is a coup for Chorus , which will get back the fault-tolerant technology added to the microkernel as a standard ingredient in its Chorus Mix product . |
| 13 | … no living writer , try though he may , can bring the past back again , because no living writer can bring back the ordinary day . |
| 14 | With regard to verifying the accuracy of the published waiting times , mechanisms are in place through which general practitioners and community health councils can feed back the current situation to the health authority . |
| 15 | who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came . |
| 16 | You can get back the gross amount of SMP you have paid out , plus an additional amount ( 4.5% of the total gross SMP from 6th April 1991 ) as compensation for the NI contributions you have paid on SMP . |