Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 2 | After a moment , when her head had settled , muddily , Tabitha slowly turned back the duvet . |
| 3 | Julian never paid back the money , even though he started up in business again and eventually did all right for himself . |
| 4 | Marching on FOOTBALL : Juventus clinched a thrilling 2–1 victory over Atalanta yesterday to claw back a point from Italian first division leaders AC Milan who could only manage a goalless draw at lowly Fiorentina . |
| 5 | On Hilda Machin 's nodding , Mr Kronweiser calmly took back the copy of the short story and the original manuscript , clipped them together , and put them back carefully in their right place in the drawer . |
| 6 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 7 | I switched off the lights and Seddon hurriedly drew back the curtains . |