Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 2 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 3 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 4 | The match was a little disappointing , mainly due to West Ham using 3 central defenders ( plus the two full backs ) , and basically all the midfield players dropping back . |
| 5 | HERSCHEL WALKER , the Dallas Cowboys running back , is wanted by the Minnesota Vikings , who are thought to have offered running backs Darrin Nelson and Allen Rice , cornerback Carl Lee. , two No. 1 draft picks and a No. 2 draft pick in exchange . |
| 6 | In the second half of August , the Army of Africa pressed towards Madrid , with the Republican forces falling back all the way . |
| 7 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 8 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ he said when the police chiefs hurrying back was out of sight , ‘ let us not make ourselves deceived . |
| 9 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 10 | There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves . |