Example sentences of "win back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 2 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 3 | The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents . |
| 4 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 5 | Mr Crosbie said yesterday there are also signs that the school roll is to rise , after a campaign to win back the confidence of local parents . |
| 6 | As Defence Minister at the height of the Intifada in 1988 , Rabin had again taken a hard line , and Labour was widely thought to have gained popularity after he defeated the more doveish Shimon Peres ( his successor in 1977 ) to win back the party chairmanship in February 1992 [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 7 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 8 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 9 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 10 | On the coast too , where we are used to the process of erosion ( though its scale has been heightened by the storms ) , how long can the Trust continue to play King Canute by trying to win back the dune systems , as at Woolacombe in North Devon ? |
| 11 | Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue . |
| 12 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 13 | Chettle wins back the header but it 's gone straight to Whitlow Thomson takes over and why not the way he 's played . |
| 14 | His programme — a heady mix of big spending and big cutting — may not cure Brazil 's inflation-fevered economy , slay the recession or win back the faith of foreign creditors . |
| 15 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 16 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 17 | At the Neretva River , where the road ends abruptly and without warning , Muslim soldiers wave their guns threateningly from the other side — a salutary reminder that the Muslim-Croat alliance which won back the city is deteriorating rapidly . |
| 18 | Grobbelaar , who won back the goalkeeper 's jersey from David James after the home leg , said : ‘ We will have to weather the storm . |
| 19 | The Library 's teams — winners of last year 's competition — did not fare so well this time , coming in 9th and 10th out of 14 teams , but the fishermen are hopeful of winning back the trophy for the Library next year . |
| 20 | Arguments continue to rage on the Ryder Cup side , yet Gallacher 's men are quite capable of winning back the trophy . |
| 21 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |