Example sentences of "[verb] back the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team . |
| 2 | More importantly , both groups wittily peel back the scabs of modern pop until they form into mottled bruises . |
| 3 | She drew back the curtain with her hand and looked both ways along the deserted street . |
| 4 | Max drew back the covering from the corpse , and even Lewis gave his second involuntary shudder of the night . |
| 5 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 6 | Does he agree that that would give parents an objective answer to the question , ’ How is my child 's school doing ? ’ , as well as further pressing back the frontiers of choice in education ? |
| 7 | Now Kiawah Island in South Carolina is firmly on the golfing map following September 's Ryder Cup match when the Americans snatched back the pot in that agonisingly close finish . |
| 8 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's your name ? ’ he asked , casually tossing back the rest of the ale . |
| 10 | The book traced back the history of the Teutons to an infinitely remote period : and it proved once more that the original German-Teuton race was the true creator of European civilisation . |
| 11 | It holds back the contribution to the economy of many highly skilled workers . |
| 12 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 13 | It 's not unknown to eventually track back the source of rumour and confusion to events at ‘ Grange Hill ’ . |
| 14 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 15 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 16 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 17 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 18 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 19 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 20 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 21 | Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized . |
| 22 | ‘ S'great ! ’ came back the response from King 's Reach Tower . |
| 23 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's no eventually about it , ’ came back the answer with the speed of a striking snake . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't be so silly , ’ came back the answer on the crest of a belch . |
| 26 | Let's face it … ’ he reached to smooth back the curtain of tousled gold curls from her eyes ‘ … we hardly know each other . |
| 27 | ‘ That messenger can pour back the ale near as fast as yourself , Lachlan , ’ she laughed . |
| 28 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 29 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 30 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |