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 sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 8 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 9 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 12 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 13 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 14 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 15 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 16 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 17 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 18 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 19 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 22 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 23 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 24 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 25 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 26 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | and she brings back a few bits , not enough for a child . |