Example sentences of "[verb] back on their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 2 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 3 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 4 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 5 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 6 | Lead in : Pupils could look back on their own experience of learning to read and write , and discuss why literacy is so important in our society . |
| 7 | The cavalry were toppled back on their own infantry , most of whom were never engaged . |
| 8 | The lights began to dim , and the big gold curtains swished back on their noisy invisible pulleys . |
| 9 | It is argued that the breadth and depth of the market in small company shares is suffering , particularly as the volume of trading in smaller company shares has dropped since the crash of October 1987 as investors have fled to blue chip shares , and the number of brokers cutting back on their small firms business has increased . |
| 10 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 11 | The result is that they are thrown back on their own individual and collective resources . |
| 12 | One way or the other , market competition between firms doing independent R&D may result in excessive R&D , and co-operating rivals will have an incentive to cut back on their total R&D . |
| 13 | Normally , with Dawn , I would just walk straight towards the perch , but these Harris 's hawks were really eager , and bated immediately the breeze got in their feathers ; that is , they tried to take off and fly back on their own . |