Example sentences of "[noun] pull back from [art] " in BNC.

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1 In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink .
2 In a television address , he called on deputies to pull back from the brink .
3 Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl .
4 As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war
5 BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike .
6 Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) .
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