Example sentences of "he [vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 2 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 3 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 4 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 5 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 6 | It filled his his truck up so he said when he comes back on the next delivery he 'll take all the turf away for fifteen quid . |
| 7 | Then right at the end of the interview , he comes back to the fundamental question about himself — what is on offer . |