Example sentences of "[vb past] back the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew back the dingy plastic curtains covering the small window overlooking the yard . |
| 2 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 3 | The next morning Tom Picton , a former lecturer at the Royal College of Art who had worked as picture editor on the dummy edition , played back the tinny message . |
| 4 | yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , thank you , Corp , ’ came back the sarcastic cry . |
| 6 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 7 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 9 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 10 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 11 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 12 | Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted . |
| 13 | She came back the next day . |
| 14 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 15 | Chapman came back the next year , he said , because he had more time , not because the finances were in a muddle . |
| 16 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 17 | The truck came back the same afternoon . |
| 18 | Wayne seemed frozen in mid-action as she quickly threw back the top sheet of the bed and climbed in ; but then he recovered , and started an awkward fight to get his shoes off without actually untying their laces . |
| 19 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 20 | Occupying Guadalcanal among other Solomon Islands , they were checked when the invasion fleet had to be recalled before reaching Port Moresby , for an American naval task force , despite heavy losses , turned back the Japanese fleet on 5 May in the battle of the Coral Sea 300 miles ( 550km ) south of Guadalcanal . |
| 21 | Prince Tyrion is the Elf general who turned back the great Incursion of Chaos two hundred years ago . |
| 22 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 23 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 24 | Di handed back the leased supercar recently following continuing pressure for her to drive a British model . |
| 25 | She thrust back the bright patchwork quilt and levered herself to a sitting position , her feet dangling over the edge of the bed . |
| 26 | When she had found the tokens she shovelled back the mingled wheat and rye , regardless , into the containers . |
| 27 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 28 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 29 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 30 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |