Example sentences of "but she [verb] back the " in BNC.

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1 For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away .
2 Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself .
3 She had the insane desire to tell all that to this man , but she bit back the words .
4 But she bit back the words .
5 It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered .
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