Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 2 | Labour MP Frank Field , who chairs the Social Security Select Committee , said last night : ‘ When he is back in work , and can sell the house , he should pay back the DSS . ’ |
| 3 | Now how do you think they should pay back the time wasted ? |
| 4 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |
| 5 | ‘ I must get back the sack . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll take back the part about the rats . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll pull back the curtains so you can have some company . ’ |
| 8 | Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell . |
| 9 | One of the conditions of the original purchase from Wedgwood was that it could buy back the house for £1 if we had not completed the restoration within five years . |
| 10 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 11 | Celia wished she could take back the words . |
| 12 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |
| 13 | No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression . |
| 14 | Interviews were tape-recorded so that a trained rater could play back the tape and rate the relatives on : critical comments , hostility , overinvolvement , warmth and positive remarks . |
| 15 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ If only we could roll back the frontiers of the 1960s . ’ |
| 17 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 18 | She wished she could turn back the clock . |
| 19 | Wished she could turn back the clock to when , only a matter of ten days ago , she 'd led a calm and orderly life back in London , in control of her business and her private life … |
| 20 | If only she could turn back the clock she would never have come to this wretched country in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 22 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 23 | One or two pigments did stain the fibres somewhat , but they still held their translucence , and I suppose that a wash in warm soapy water would bring back the whiteness . |
| 24 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 25 | An ASEAN statement issued on July 23 ( the day before the start of the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Indonesia — see p. 37613 ) stated that the representation of Cambodia at the UN was " a delicate political question " and that attempts to change the seating in the absence of an acceptable Supreme National Council would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution . |
| 26 | The US decision was criticized by ASEAN in a final communiqué which stated that " attempts to change the [ UN ] representation of Cambodia at this time … would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution to the problem " . |
| 27 | When our engagement was broken off , neither of us would take back the other 's ring . |
| 28 | Now , he said , if there 's any question of doubt , he 'll seal it and then the receiver would know there was some question of doubt , and he would seal back the reply . |
| 29 | He would pay back the £5,000 together with the interest in 120 monthly instalments of £82.89 . |
| 30 | So , one Member of Parliament 's idea ‘ to have girl muggers whipped ’ would turn back the clock to the 1820s when corporal punishment for women was abolished , whereas another Parliamentary recommendation to ‘ Bring back stocks for hooligans ’ would presumably transport us into the Dark Ages . |