Example sentences of "back the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 2 | FRANCIS Lee told crisis club Manchester City 's supporters and shareholders today : ‘ I 'm ready to help bring back the good times to Maine Road but only with your backing . ’ |
| 3 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 4 | Yet , even as she squealed , she pushed back the tormented cheeks of her arse on to him . |
| 5 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 6 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 7 | It brought back the long months of bitterness and loneliness she had suffered , shut away on her father 's estate . |
| 8 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 9 | He touched her face gently , his thumb brushing her cheek , his fingers lightly smoothing back the straying tendrils of her hair . |
| 10 | Japan was a country which had achieved ‘ modernization ’ , which could offer a model to other industrializing nations ; the militarism and aggression of the 1930s was an aberration , explicable largely in political terms , the ability of a small group to turn back the liberal trends of the twenties . |
| 11 | 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 . ‘ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 14 | Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst , smashing back the last barriers to her soul , and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion . |
| 15 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 16 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 17 | The Communist Party had continually attacked the ILP regarding the disaffiliation issue as a temporary manoeuvre " to hold back the British workers from the revolutionary policy of the Communist lnternational " . |
| 18 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries . |
| 21 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |
| 22 | None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich . |