Example sentences of "[to-vb] back the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no sound outside and he tried again : now with both of his hands , one to steady up the other , to work back the locking door-holt . |
| 2 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 3 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 4 | Visiting time was over and Eleanor left , promising to come back the following afternoon . |
| 5 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 6 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 7 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 8 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 9 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 10 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 11 | However , the diplomats said that neither Unita , enjoying success on the battlefield , or the Angolan government , which wants to win back the lost ground , appeared ready for serious peace negotiations . |
| 12 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , at the age of 34 , is unofficial favourite to win back the National Top 12 title at Clacton-on-Sea today from Alan Cooke . |
| 13 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 14 | Government officials expressed confidence in January 1990 that Bolivia would by June have cancelled all its commercial bank debts , after receiving promises of a total of $30,500,000 in donations which would enable it to buy back the remaining $270,000,000 . |
| 15 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 16 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 17 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |
| 18 | UEFA also agreed to put back the forthcoming tie 24 hours after a request from the Blues who were concerned about the damage live TV would inflict on gate receipts . |
| 19 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 20 | ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall . |
| 21 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 22 | ‘ There was quite an uproar and the sailors had to help the English for to keep back the Irish , they being the greatest majority . |
| 23 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 24 | Religion 's as good as dead , there 's nothing to hold back the New People , they 'll grow stronger and stronger and swamp us . |
| 25 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 26 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 27 | The Communist Party had continually attacked the ILP regarding the disaffiliation issue as a temporary manoeuvre " to hold back the British workers from the revolutionary policy of the Communist lnternational " . |
| 28 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |
| 29 | John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure . |
| 30 | The Russians , fighting desperately to hold back the German invaders , called on the Allies to set up a " second front " in Western Europe by invading France . |