Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 7 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , if they do n't collect you may have to pay back the 80 per cent you have already received . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 19 | He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee . |
| 20 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 21 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 22 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |
| 23 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |