Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 2 | Feeling the girl 's eyes on her , Lisa fought back a blush . |
| 3 | I could give examples of how people have been pursued beyond the grave to pull back a few miserly pounds of poll tax payment . |
| 4 | David must be the best company manager in the business , and our friendship goes back a decade or more . |
| 5 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 6 | Bernice fought back a wave of panic . |
| 7 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 8 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 9 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 10 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 11 | Hari shook back a strand of hair that had fallen from the pins . |
| 12 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 13 | Though it was barely nine o'clock , sun blazed down , and already the huge slabs of stone paving the campo threw back an oven heat . |
| 14 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 15 | ’ Tam folded back the paper and pointed to the banner headline . |
| 16 | The erotic implications of the subject , the motif of the figure holding back the curtain and the very prominent position of the still lifes , call to mind such works by Cézanne as l'Eternel Féminin , the various Temptations of St. Anthony and the Après-Midi à Naples . |
| 17 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 18 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 19 | There is all the difference between keeping slim , well-groomed and well-dressed in order to look good at forty-five or fifty , and putting the same amount of effort into an attempt to put back the clock and have another crack at being twenty-five . |
| 20 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 21 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 22 | 8 The defender pulls back the fist ready for a second strike , should it be necessary . |
| 23 | But in this case the enlightened engineer was concerned to do precisely the opposite , and as the digger pulled back the rubble , he exposed an area of wall which looked for a moment as if it was made entirely of shiny cream bones . |
| 24 | John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure . |
| 25 | Within two hours , a representative from Harbottle and Lewis , the lawyers retained by Branson , was at the High Court in London getting an injunction to stop Chemical handing back the plane to Boeing . |
| 26 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 27 | EDUCATION Secretary John Patten 's relentless attempt to turn back the school clocks continues this week with the release of the proposed new children 's reading list . |
| 28 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 29 | My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie 'd asked me if I 'd like to make a bit on the side . |
| 30 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |