Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 2 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 3 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 4 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 5 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 6 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 7 | Brittain says : ‘ She has put back the weight , is in tremendous form — and deserves a tilt at another classic . ’ |
| 8 | This has held back the development of voice operation . |
| 9 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 10 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 11 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 12 | To prove wrong those who say that any dieter will have put back the weight ( and more ) 12 months after losing it — 12 months on and 18 lbs ( 8.2 kg ) down , I 'm still a ‘ Hip and Thigh ’ fan . |
| 13 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 14 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 15 | Crushed against him , Folly could no more have resisted than she could have held back the tides . |
| 16 | She had lifted back the veil and looked stunningly beautiful . |
| 17 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 18 | They 've pushed back the boundaries which were limiting the business . |
| 19 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 20 | They 've called back the likes of former World finalists Jimmy Nilsen and Captain Mitch Shirra . |
| 21 | The unspoken aggression of this evening had brought back the nightmare because with him she had gone further than mere temper . |
| 22 | Her first sight of a submarine had brought back the pain of Gerry 's death and she 'd had to tell herself that those in the loch were ours , so they could n't be all that bad . |
| 23 | Titch had cut back the motor and was scanning the shoreline . |
| 24 | Twoflower , meanwhile , had thrown back the lid of the Luggage and was hastily pulling out a heavy black cube . |
| 25 | THE KILLING of 11 Royal Marines bandsmen in the Deal Barracks explosion had put back the cause of the IRA , Dr Robert Runcie , the Archbishop of Canterbury , said during the memorial service to the victims at Canterbury Cathedral yesterday . |
| 26 | Senior officers may or may not have been involved , but they certainly made public their opposition to party politicians who had held back the growth of military expenditure in budget balancing financial policies . |
| 27 | When guests wish to withdraw from the safe deposit the original receipt must be produced and they must sign the receipt book as proof that they have received back the valuables . |
| 28 | Those socialist feminists whose contributions I find most exciting and challenging have drawn back the curtains to expose the contradictions and complexity of desire . |
| 29 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 30 | The Davies ' sold the share to Brent Walker Group , but now with the help of property , hotel and distribution partners have bought back the business . |