Example sentences of "[to-vb] back a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement . |
| 2 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 3 | Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up . |
| 4 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 5 | and it 's beginning to grow back a little bit . |
| 6 | She resisted the temptation to look back a second time . |
| 7 | She used the cloth to slide back a hot glass plate and extract a rather tired looking object . |
| 8 | Erm , just to go back a wee bit to the thing about th the image and and the fight that we have on our hands er , to actually break into the media , I do n't , I think people underestimate the control an and er the feeling that men have that it 's their game and we 're not gon na take it away from them ! |
| 9 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 10 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 11 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 12 | Emigrants , feeling the cold hand of death upon them , would summon up their memories of home and their failing strength , to send back a final message . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 15 | To get back a miserable ring ? |
| 16 | Develop a thick skin , harden her heart , learn to bite back a stinging retort and invest in a good supply of patience ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ he said slowly , put up his hand to brush back a lustrous curl which had strayed from its bonds . |
| 19 | I hope that a general election will be declared soon , that it will be fair , and that it will serve to bring back a decent system . |
| 20 | As home-brewing returns , some groups are striving to bring back a milder version of Prohibition . |