Example sentences of "[vb pp] back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 2 | She had lifted back the veil and looked stunningly beautiful . |
| 3 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 4 | Finally , the operator pulled out a small metal box from a rack underneath his desk , deftly flipped back the lid and plugged in the connection . |
| 5 | I thought of him now — he was called Mike Jarvis and he was a great skateboarder — as the congregation swept up the steps , past me and Mrs Danby , and Pike triumphantly pushed back the curtain to reveal the inner sanctum of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 6 | She took a grip on herself , physically pushed back the dark , claustrophobic horror at the point of drowning . |
| 7 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 8 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 9 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 10 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 11 | After a moment , when her head had settled , muddily , Tabitha slowly turned back the duvet . |
| 12 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 13 | The Davies ' sold the share to Brent Walker Group , but now with the help of property , hotel and distribution partners have bought back the business . |
| 14 | He seemed almost disappointed to be handed back the wad of notes . |
| 15 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 16 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 17 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 18 | He pulled back the blankets , peeled back the cotton and rubber sheets and struggled down the ladder with them in his arms . |
| 19 | He stripped his clothes off , peeled back the sheet , and climbed into bed . |
| 20 | I took a deep , deep breath … peeled back the hood , and … rapid eye movement … |
| 21 | The Captain called back the guard who had shown him out : ‘ Ask the Brigadier to come in , will you ? ’ |
| 22 | He folded it and smoothed back the sheet . |
| 23 | The October decree had also given back the name Vladikavkaz to North Ossetia 's capital , Ordzhonikidze ( renamed after Stalin 's henchman Sergo Ordzhonikidze ) . |
| 24 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 25 | The unspoken aggression of this evening had brought back the nightmare because with him she had gone further than mere temper . |
| 26 | Her first sight of a submarine had brought back the pain of Gerry 's death and she 'd had to tell herself that those in the loch were ours , so they could n't be all that bad . |
| 27 | She crossed to the other bed , and gently pulled back the sheet which covered him . |
| 28 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 29 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 30 | Her visitor wandered nonchalantly over to the window and looped back the curtain to peer out . |