Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 2 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 3 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 4 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 5 | But she seemed unaware of it as her green eyes glared back at the man who had struck her . |
| 6 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 7 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 8 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 9 | The herb beds should be lightly dug over with a fork , weeded if necessary , and the invasive plants chopped back at the roots . |
| 10 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 11 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 12 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 13 | Scrubby hawthorns hold back at the brink . |
| 14 | But despite a minor stoppage outside splendid sunlit Durham , you could feel the power of the new class 91 locomotives clawing back at the clock on the run in to Newcastle . |