Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] back a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sponsor , Walter Scott , commented : ‘ We 're hoping to bring back a fistful of medals and hoping that this will give the youngsters at the grass roots of sport an achievement to emulate at future Games . ’ |
| 2 | As home-brewing returns , some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition . |
| 3 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 4 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 5 | Thirty-seven stitches were needed to sew back a flap in his face which went from the side of his nose and tore the corner of his mouth . |
| 6 | and it 's beginning to grow back a little bit . |