Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the shop sells the goods , a finance company pays the shop , and the buyer pays back the finance house , usually in month instalments up to two-and-a-half years ; interest rate fixed at start . |
| 2 | The Hand That Rocks The Cradle sets back the cause of nannies by 50 years — but boy , what a film . |
| 3 | If the full amount is not spent , then the employee pays back the difference . |
| 4 | 8 The defender pulls back the fist ready for a second strike , should it be necessary . |
| 5 | The mouse chokes back a sob of gratitude . |
| 6 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 7 | The scale of the potential danger emerged when it was revealed that the dam holds back an estimated 3.5 million tons of toxic sludge from a now-closed lead and zinc mine nearby , containing harmful levels of these and other metals . |
| 8 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 9 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 10 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 11 | The mirror gives back a woman without deformity . |
| 12 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 13 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 14 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |