Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of these two Smith & Wessons brings back an old tingle . |
| 2 | Erm it , it did sort of get going but I felt that Maggie held back a little bit on that whereas you , you might have got er you know a bit , a bit more information with open questions . |
| 3 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 4 | She loosed her sash , sending it snaking with a flick of her wrist so that Grimm jumped back a pace . |
| 5 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 6 | The Princesse was already shaking hands with him and Katherine held back a little . |
| 7 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 8 | Bernice and Defries stepped back a few paces , to where Daak 's shrieking chainsword was slicing a hole in the curved wall . |
| 9 | He raised a mocking dark brow as he sat back in his seat and crossed one long leg over the other , and Fran bit back a sudden urge to snap an answer at him . |
| 10 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 11 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 12 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 13 | Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish , a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage . |
| 14 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 15 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |
| 16 | Richard held out his hand , and Merrill stood back a little , noting Luke 's flash of surprise at Richard 's West Country accent . |
| 17 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 18 | Bullock had been one up after 15 holes but Davies pulled back the deficit at the 16th and held on to finish the match all square . |
| 19 | Soon after Joe went back the family were notified that Terry was a prisoner of war , and given the address of the Stalag in which he was held . |
| 20 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 21 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 22 | She watched curiously as Rory rolled back a piece of carpet six feet away and pulled out an iron key . |
| 23 | When Lyddy folded back the shutters in the morning , bright cold winter sunlight bounced into the room like an explosion . |
| 24 | And six days later she hit the jackpot … when Bonnie paid back the cash . |
| 25 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 26 | As God drives back the waters so that they can cross in safety , and as he sends the wall of water rushing down upon Pharaoh 's forces , Israel learns the truth of Moses ' words : " The Lord will fight for you , and you have only to be still " ( 14:14 ) . |
| 27 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |