Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young lady thus addressed jumped back a prudent pace or two . |
| 2 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 3 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 4 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 5 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 6 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 7 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |