Example sentences of "[vb past] back the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 32 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 33 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 34 | She pulled back the front curtain vigorously and revealed herself to be young and jolly-looking . |
| 35 | Together they pulled back the high door , which despite its rustic appearance , ran smoothly on well-greased and balanced rollers . |
| 36 | Benjamin went across and pulled back the dead man 's head . |
| 37 | ANDY pulled back the spring-loaded handle of the machine and released it with a thump . |
| 38 | Four times a day , the nurse pulled back the white cover , turned Dot on her side , pulled up the gown and thrust the needle in with the savage pain of a bayonet . |
| 39 | As he climbed up from the rowing-deck onto the poop , he tossed back the great plaid and turned a bleak gaze on his clansmen . |
| 40 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 41 | She went back the next day . |
| 42 | And for once Lisa managed to suppress her irritation and bit back the impatient demand for an answer that she felt instinctively rising to her lips . |
| 43 | Alexandra bit back the unpleasant retort which rose to her lips . |
| 44 | As they paddled in silence , Delaney bit back the rising ache in his throat . |
| 45 | She looked back the other way . |
| 46 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |
| 47 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 48 | She flew to the scullery , lugged back the heavy can . |
| 49 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 50 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 51 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 52 | During a visit to Korea , he laid a wreath at a memorial to the men who held back the full might of the Chinese army at the battle of Imjin River . |
| 53 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 54 | And many films attacked the sort of conservative attitudes which held back the British war effort . |
| 55 | He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside . |