Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] back the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 2 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 3 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 4 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 5 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 6 | I pushed back the rusty old gate and staggered into the garden . |
| 7 | And many films attacked the sort of conservative attitudes which held back the British war effort . |
| 8 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 9 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 10 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |
| 11 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 12 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 13 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 14 | Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted . |
| 15 | She came back the next day . |
| 16 | Prince Tyrion is the Elf general who turned back the great Incursion of Chaos two hundred years ago . |
| 17 | She thrust back the bright patchwork quilt and levered herself to a sitting position , her feet dangling over the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | When she had found the tokens she shovelled back the mingled wheat and rye , regardless , into the containers . |
| 19 | She pulled back the front curtain vigorously and revealed herself to be young and jolly-looking . |
| 20 | Then , with skirt high and legs apart , she rolled back the thick outer lips of her quim with her thumbs to reveal the secret pink sponginess which surrounded her most intimate entrance . |
| 21 | She bit back the unwordable sweet pain of when Lucy had whispered : I love you , I love you , there you are … |
| 22 | She looked back the other way . |
| 23 | She went back the next day . |
| 24 | She flicked back the long , dark , silky strands of her hair and sat cross-legged on the bed . |
| 25 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 26 | During a visit to Korea , he laid a wreath at a memorial to the men who held back the full might of the Chinese army at the battle of Imjin River . |
| 27 | Yet , even as she squealed , she pushed back the tormented cheeks of her arse on to him . |
| 28 | She pushed back the warm honeyed tendrils of her hair from her neck , allowing a tantalising breeze to fan her skin . |
| 29 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 30 | When they got back the little house was empty . |