Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 2 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 3 | Men with sticks beat back the scramble . |
| 4 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
| 5 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 6 | Amidst calls to bring back the birch and to inaugurate ‘ Saturday night floggings ’ for soccer hooligans , Mr William Whitelaw reaffirmed his pledge to toughen up the law by introducing a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on the Army ‘ glass house ’ system of physical drill and unrelenting discipline . |
| 7 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 8 | 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 . |