Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She closes her eyes squeezing back the tears . |
| 6 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 7 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 8 | And at that stage England were 50 without loss , with Gooch and Mike Atherton seizing back the initiative with some memorable strokes after Ian Healy had spearheaded a gutsy rearguard action . |
| 9 | A signal occasion … the steam train turning back the clock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She sounded half alarmed , half excited , and within seconds Tom was beside the bed pulling back the sheets . |
| 12 | I passed an old man cutting back the undergrowth with a rusty scythe . |
| 13 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 14 | hard men knocking back the brandy , each of us |
| 15 | She was woken in the early hours by a hand pulling back the bedclothes , and a cold body plonking down beside her . |
| 16 | The ambulance arriving at the gates of the hospital , two men heaving back the great iron gates . |
| 17 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |
| 18 | Clad in the black combat suit with the gold and scarlet dragon motif emblazoned on its back , he too was barefoot and armed with a fearsome looking katana , its razor sharp blade reflecting back the bright overhead lighting . |
| 19 | In 1790 , a cartoon in praise of the French Revolution and the Fail of the Bastille , depicts Liberty handing back the crown to Louis XVI with the words ‘ Receive from Liberty your crown again' ( see Hill , 1965 : 42 ) . |