Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 3 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |
| 4 | FRANCIS Lee told crisis club Manchester City 's supporters and shareholders today : ‘ I 'm ready to help bring back the good times to Maine Road but only with your backing . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm going going back the other way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 8 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 9 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 10 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As — to many people 's surprise — Russian resistance first held up and then began to turn back the Nazi forces , the Communists , identification with the Soviet Union became their major attraction to tens of thousands of new recruits . |
| 13 | The impressive Victorian building has recently been refurbished and restored bringing back the old fashioned courtesy , charm and service of a bygone era . |
| 14 | Remembering just in time that this heartless cynic was responsible for getting her out of the clutches of the Gibraltar Police and Customs Service , Polly managed to bite back the caustic retort trembling on the tip of her tongue and stared blankly at the vast selection of starters and main courses . |
| 15 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 16 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 17 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 18 | ‘ There we hope to continue to push back the technological frontiers and reduce the 3D turnaround cycle even further by doing even more of the seismic processing on board the vessel , ’ he says . |
| 19 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 20 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 21 | If we put more oxygen in , it might start going back the other way . |
| 22 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 23 | He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind . |
| 24 | Leaping up like that had brought back the awful queasiness . |
| 25 | But when he had fought back the overwhelming urge to ring the police and have criminal charges brought against his secretary , he had realised he could use this to his advantage . |
| 26 | The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries . |
| 27 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |