Example sentences of "[vb infin] back the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's not unknown to eventually track back the source of rumour and confusion to events at ‘ Grange Hill ’ . |
| 3 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 4 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ That messenger can pour back the ale near as fast as yourself , Lachlan , ’ she laughed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'll take back the part about the rats . ’ |
| 12 | Most deals over three months would be made with a CD due to their greater flexibility in that the depositor can gain back the deposit by selling the CD in the secondary market . |
| 13 | Thus if the Ming Vase is lent to the taxpayer repayable on demand ( so to say ) then if the taxpayer does in fact have the use for the entire year then the type of rental likely to be charged on such a letting in the market ( duly discounted because the trustees can call back the vase on demand ) is likely to comprise the benefit under s740 . |
| 14 | The annual saving on your heating bill will therefore pay back the cost of the extra insulation . |
| 15 | He watched a man scratch back the memory of many years . |
| 16 | No amount of censorship could hold back the rise of a new social consciousness bursting to find expression . |
| 17 | When pope , barons and many bishops , as well as the queen and apparently the royal heir , were largely agreed , Reynolds could not hold back the tide of change . |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |
| 19 | As his lips pressed against hers , warm and exciting , she could not hold back the longing inside her . |
| 20 | Third , a doctor 's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable , including easing his pain . |
| 21 | Such companies may receive back the piece-parts for internal assembly or be supplied with the completed article . |
| 22 | Watts fears not : he fears a return of union militancy ; he fears Labour 's desire to bring water under greater public control will put back the modernisation of the industry . |
| 23 | To complete the uniformity of the pile , one of the wheels is fitted with an electric motor which when activated manually will pull back the elevator from the heap in increments down to 25mm ( 1in ) . |
| 24 | Given the context — a decade in which a radical , market-minded government had restructured almost all of the public services , in an endeavour to ‘ roll back the frontiers of the state ’ and introduce commercial principles in the provision of social welfare — its contents are surprising . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ If only we could roll back the frontiers of the 1960s . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 27 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 28 | Mr Krenz , who is certain to become the next target of popular calls for revenge following the corruption revelations , left office warning that ‘ anti-democratic forces ’ could now roll back the process of change he had tried to introduce . |
| 29 | In each of the areas of major concern for the NVALA , there appeared to them to be influential individuals whose determination to ‘ push back the frontiers of permissiveness ’ was seen as the greatest threat to traditional Christian morality . |
| 30 | A brilliant word-processor proving shareware can push back the boundaries of software value for money . |