Example sentences of "to win back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 2 | The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |