Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Soon after Joe went back the family were notified that Terry was a prisoner of war , and given the address of the Stalag in which he was held . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 6 | She watched curiously as Rory rolled back a piece of carpet six feet away and pulled out an iron key . |
| 7 | When Lyddy folded back the shutters in the morning , bright cold winter sunlight bounced into the room like an explosion . |
| 8 | And six days later she hit the jackpot … when Bonnie paid back the cash . |
| 9 | When Sara glanced back a few moments later , she saw that five liverymen had descended upon the urchin and were giving him a beating . |
| 10 | As God drives back the waters so that they can cross in safety , and as he sends the wall of water rushing down upon Pharaoh 's forces , Israel learns the truth of Moses ' words : " The Lord will fight for you , and you have only to be still " ( 14:14 ) . |
| 11 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |