Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you have the knack and a light enough touch , you can just about ease back the spring enough to release the tongue . |
| 2 | Managers now dutifully bring back the brief . |
| 3 | It is flexible enough to bend around the channel in the woodwork , and hard enough to push back the steel Yale bolt . |
| 4 | Third , a doctor 's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable , including easing his pain . |
| 5 | Citrine , who , despite his wrangles with Gaitskell , was keen that Labour should win , warned in the summer of 1951 that he could no longer hold back the Area Board chairmen from politically damaging attacks on the Government if the investment controls were not relaxed . |
| 6 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 7 | When they waved to her , and held up little Enoch to see her better , she could no longer keep back the blinding tears . |
| 8 | The pair were in the air together at the last , but Bonnie Artist stumbled on landing and could never quite peg back the leader who held on by threequarters of a length . |