Example sentences of "and [verb] 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 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 5 | You 've got to lift the whole lot off the wall and unthread the curtains and put back the right number of rings and hooks and it 's a palaver and I have n't done it . |
| 6 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 7 | ‘ People were turning around and going back the other way , which was extremely dangerous . |
| 8 | The latter is an evocative nature ballad and a poignant portrait of the artist at sunset but the forecast says Cash will be mining riches and holding back the black night for many years to come . |
| 9 | This means restraint in public spending and holding back the natural enthusiasm of a clutch of new ministers to open the purse strings . |
| 10 | Katherine crossed to the window and pulled back the heavy drapes , squinting against the pale January sunlight . |
| 11 | Benjamin went across and pulled back the dead man 's head . |
| 12 | And coming back the other way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Is that also the reason you will assume Fergus 's mantle and go into the Far Future to bind the Apocalypse and turn back the Four Horsemen ? ’ |
| 15 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 16 | This will ensure that the appropriate corporation tax accounting period can be created , and the company is then free to pay the dividend and carry back the relevant ACT . |
| 17 | They helped her straighten the covers in the morning , and folded back the white sheet with celestial zest . |
| 18 | Throw your body-weight forwards and pull back the leading fist , using this combination action to snap punch into the opponent 's face . |
| 19 | What is needed from you Congress is to fight these distortions and to take back the front page headlines and make sure that the headlines are accurate , fair and truthful . |
| 20 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 21 | 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 . |