Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 2 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 3 | Furthermore , they agreed to buy back the land at the purchase price should the venture fail . |
| 4 | ‘ Until this evening , ’ he said huskily , and turned to go back the way they had come . |
| 5 | Before he could introduce himself , Emily turned and began to walk back the way she had come . |
| 6 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 7 | After reassessing the situation , however , the Brigade Commander decided to pull back the battlegroup and move it into temporary hides . |
| 8 | Easily Accessible : Bosham is where , according to legend , King Cnut tried and failed to turn back the sea and the village is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry . |
| 9 | Let's face it … ’ he reached to smooth back the curtain of tousled gold curls from her eyes ‘ … we hardly know each other . |
| 10 | Spencer Chapman , designing for ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ , managed to bring back the tricycle idea for getting the Daleks to move on rough terrain . |
| 11 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |
| 12 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 13 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 14 | She bit — savagely at her cuticles again , and McLeish had to fight back the urge to yell at her to stop , for God 's sake . |
| 15 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 17 | We did n't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it . |
| 18 | In the past , the relatively unsophisticated consumer market and a dependence on cheap office giveaways at Christmas tended to hold back the market in the UK ( as opposed to more sophisticated markets in the US and Europe ) . |