Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 2 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 3 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 4 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 5 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 6 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 7 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 8 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 9 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 10 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 11 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 12 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 13 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 14 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 15 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 16 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 18 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 19 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 20 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 21 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ I warn you — I 'm not going to pull any punches , ’ Howard tells Miriam when she comes back the following week with the film crew . |
| 23 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 24 | Which brings back a curious memory , of canvassing a young man in a tracksuit in Cromford , Derbyshire , who stood before me arguing about education , with what John Major would call a very considerable erection . |
| 25 | The thought of these two Smith & Wessons brings back an old tingle . |