Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 4 | The young lady thus addressed jumped back a prudent pace or two . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm going going back the other way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 13 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 14 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 15 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 16 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | and it 's beginning to grow back a little bit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As home-brewing returns , some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition . |
| 21 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 22 | The impressive Victorian building has recently been refurbished and restored bringing back the old fashioned courtesy , charm and service of a bygone era . |
| 23 | The virtues of this procedure , which does n't lengthen but in fact shortens your investigation , are as follows : ( a ) The actual investigation is simplified , as you do n't have to keep turning back an unwieldy abstract to see which documents contained restrictions , whether the seller named in one conveyance was the buyer named in the previous deed , etc . |
| 24 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 25 | However , if they do n't collect you may have to pay back the 80 per cent you have already received . |
| 26 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 27 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I hope that a general election will be declared soon , that it will be fair , and that it will serve to bring back a decent system . |