Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 2 | We must bring back the Three Rs . ’ |
| 3 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 4 | EGYPT has suggested that Israel should take back the remaining 396 Palestinian deportees in three stages up to June in order to end a crisis threatening Middle East peace talks , Palestinian sources said yesterday . |
| 5 | Labour MP Frank Field , who chairs the Social Security Select Committee , said last night : ‘ When he is back in work , and can sell the house , he should pay back the DSS . ’ |
| 6 | Now how do you think they should pay back the time wasted ? |
| 7 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |
| 8 | ‘ I must get back the sack . ’ |
| 9 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 10 | I 'll take back the part about the rats . ’ |
| 11 | If we see there 's quite a few on the walkways , and if we know that they 're outsiders then we 'll we 'll turn round and we 'll walk back the other way . |
| 12 | I 'll pull back the curtains so you can have some company . ’ |
| 13 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 14 | Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell . |
| 15 | With the selection of some anti-O'Neill candidates in the 1970 Stormont elections and the Westminster elections of the same year , the conservatives sensed that they could win back the Unionist Party machine . |
| 16 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 17 | Celia wished she could take back the words . |
| 18 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 19 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |
| 20 | No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression . |
| 21 | Fran took a slow deep breath , then another and another , but there was no way she could hold back the knifing pain . |
| 22 | Interviews were tape-recorded so that a trained rater could play back the tape and rate the relatives on : critical comments , hostility , overinvolvement , warmth and positive remarks . |
| 23 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ If only we could roll back the frontiers of the 1960s . ’ |
| 25 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 26 | She wished she could turn back the clock . |
| 27 | Wished she could turn back the clock to when , only a matter of ten days ago , she 'd led a calm and orderly life back in London , in control of her business and her private life … |
| 28 | If only she could turn back the clock she would never have come to this wretched country in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 30 | One or two pigments did stain the fibres somewhat , but they still held their translucence , and I suppose that a wash in warm soapy water would bring back the whiteness . |