Example sentences of "back the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 2 | And , turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour , caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession . |
| 3 | On a part of Blakerigg at the foot of the gill from Blea Tarn there was a place with a fine echo , and Green imagined ‘ Music amid such wilds ! ah ! how charming , plaintive solos on the clarinet or flute would have a fine effect amongst such rocks , which during the intervals of rest , would echo back the melancholy notes in soft reverberations , and produce in the mind a union of the most pleasing sensations . ‘ |
| 4 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 5 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 6 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 7 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 8 | As they paddled in silence , Delaney bit back the rising ache in his throat . |
| 9 | ‘ Stupid of me , ’ he said , palming back the white strand in his hair . |