Example sentences of "[noun] back a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 2 | Take your heal back a little fraction , that 's it , ooh , yeah , only just |
| 3 | Most meteorites collected elsewhere in the world fell within the past 200 years , although some dates of fall range back a few thousand years . |
| 4 | in this particular twelve month period your budget estimate would be wrong in that you needed to pay the residence back a hundred and eight pounds |
| 5 | It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit . |
| 6 | Probably that knocked Peter back a little bit , we 'll read on a little bit later but Peter fully abandons Jesus let's face it . |
| 7 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 8 | Kate pulled the door back a few inches . |
| 9 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 10 | It appeared to us then that the scheme which allows us to hand back a large proportion of the business rates was not widely known . ’ |
| 11 | The village was four miles away , the walk back a long climb in the sun . |
| 12 | Cast your minds back a few weeks . |
| 13 | Several journalists from rival publications take umbrage at this and a ‘ is the human back a naughty bit ’ controversy/debate ensues … |
| 14 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 15 | Though it is possible to trace a system of remedies outside the court structure back a thousand years ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) , it is unnecessary to go back beyond the National Insurance Act 1911 for an historical background to modern tribunals . |
| 16 | She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face . |