Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 2 | Repeated attempts to cut back the global total of public spending have placed an increased emphasis on control of public spending . |
| 3 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 6 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 7 | When Czechoslovakia was in terminal crisis she raised money from the Royal Institute of British Architects to bring back a planeload of children from Prague . |
| 8 | There were candles on the altar , on the pulpit , on the deep stone ledges of the windows , and the glossy leaves gave back the candle flames ' reflections . |
| 9 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 10 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 11 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 12 | hard men knocking back the brandy , each of us |
| 13 | From above , this is a surreal sight — a dozen Canutes holding back a flesh ocean . |
| 14 | The Emperor Nero , two thousand years ago , used pigeons to send back the results of the Imperial Games to his friends and relations . |
| 15 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 16 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 17 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 18 | Last week the deadline for finding eight thousand pounds to pay back a loan from a mortgage company expired . |
| 19 | World snooker champion , Steven Hendry has paid out ten thousand pounds to get back a cue stolen from him . |
| 20 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 21 | Croatian separatist forces won back a degree of control by instigating a blockade of JNA barracks throughout the republic of Croatia , forcing the occupants to surrender with their tanks and equipment . |
| 22 | ‘ So I 've got just about two years and nine months to pay back the full sixty pounds plus interest ? ’ |
| 23 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 24 | ‘ I can remember phone numbers , decks of cards , all the Olympic medal-winners going back a century but I could n't remember the right day on which to turn up — at least I was n't a week late . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The manmade homes to bring back the otter … |
| 27 | The ambulance arriving at the gates of the hospital , two men heaving back the great iron gates . |
| 28 | For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment . |