Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’
2 LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly quit the game after a long illness , unexpectedly won back the British national title at Newcastle yesterday when she beat Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting less than 45 minutes .
3 The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies .
4 It was now light , the lamps on the gangway giving murky yellow pools that barely pushed back the inky blackness of a starless night .
5 It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts .
6 Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres .
7 Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes .
8 I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house .
9 Chief Executive Hazel Dudgeon , fronting the course 's annual preview for the first time , said : ‘ We have got back the two evening meetings ( 15 and 29 July ) we lost last year and now have six of these on our 17-strong programme .
10 If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% .
11 A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year .
12 ‘ One of the brothers , you say , called back the young man , and came out afterwards with him .
13 The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome .
14 This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory .
15 In chart terms the band were new , but in reality their roots can be traced back an incredible 15 years .
16 This was a wonderful opportunity to continue to network European wide and the WASL representatives have brought back a good range of catalogues and information about new women artists groups for the archive .
17 Seeing Pugh 's brought back a past visit .
18 He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why .
19 Leaping up like that had brought back the awful queasiness .
20 The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries .
21 He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind .
22 I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services .
23 They helped her straighten the covers in the morning , and folded back the white sheet with celestial zest .
24 Although he was sacked he was taken back a fourth time and he did indeed die in harness .
25 I was annoyed when came back the last time and I thought oh my goodness I hope I have n't given that woman any annoyance .
26 But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage .
27 Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 .
28 This is my first letter to this magnificent mailing networky thing ( except it is'nt really because i had one sent back the other day , but that s another story ) This is also going to be my last for a while as I 'm going back home to newcastle tomorrow .
29 Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs .
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