Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Adam Thomson , the founder of British Caledonian , took the trouble to write back a most comprehensive letter , giving kindly guidance and suggesting that until Giles was old enough , he should gain useful experience in a related industry like travel . |
| 2 | He campaigned tirelessly to win back the twice yearly courts or assizes , which Buckingham had lost to Aylesbury . |
| 3 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 4 | Fertility conditions play a part then , and as hard pruning provokes the greater growth response , we should judge to ease back a little on poor , dry soils compared with more fertile conditions . |
| 5 | He can afford to draw back a little . |
| 6 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 7 | He leaned closer towards her , his elbows resting on his thighs , causing Ronni to flatten back a little defensively in her seat . |
| 8 | To go back a little , there is much to be said for spending six months to a year ( a small-minded regulation forbids any longer time ) in a solicitor 's office before pupillage . |
| 9 | You have to go back a very long way indeed to a more decorous age when politicians did n't use the memoir as a weapon for reopening old wounds . |
| 10 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 11 | To cope with even part of this ( and to send back the more far-fetched requests ) , the UN needs a master chef , not a harassed waiter . |
| 12 | To open the literature programme we are delighted to welcome back the internationally acclaimed poets James Berry and Miroslav Holub to read from work past and present . |
| 13 | ‘ I admit I 've had to cut back a little just recently , but I 'm hoping to get back into my stride really soon . ’ |