Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
| 2 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 3 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 4 | er but then everybody in in working at 's had the opportunity to feed back |
| 5 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | Well as a the reflector is they actually learn from situations where they get the opportunity to sit back to watch to think about what 's being said so they digest in information for themselves . |
| 7 | This was viewed as the opportunity to cut back on staff costs . |
| 8 | After the completion of his second term as governor in 1975 , he was unemployed and had the opportunity to trail back and forth across the country making contact with local and state party leaders , raising financial support and fashioning a personal organization . |
| 9 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 10 | Would the minister like to say , like to welcome that initiative but also to ensure that the money which the South Thames tech are going to be able to put into that will be able to continue and not only continue in that one but to allow the increase of this after school provision so that those many women in my constituency and who , the many women in South London who are unemployed , will have the opportunity to get back to work and get back to training with that very necessary provision for child care . |
| 11 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 12 | The Scots include six full caps against the visitors ' four , and for four of the forwards , Martin Scott , Chris Gray , David McIvor , playing at No8 , and Ian Smith , the match , sponsored by Total Oil Marine International , provides them with the opportunity to get back into the selectors ' good books . |
| 13 | Tipping the handgrip back to the vertical allows the mercury to flow back into the bottom of the cup , so breaking the contact . |
| 14 | But the signs are that street-wise teenagers who caused the Chipie boom are moving on again , leaving the brand to settle back to what it is meant to be , a broad-based fashionable collection with an appeal to all members of the family who like off-beat colours and tradition given a twist . |
| 15 | I could give examples of how people have been pursued beyond the grave to pull back a few miserly pounds of poll tax payment . |
| 16 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 17 | But the men from the Midlands had enjoyed themselves so well , they decided the engraved glass trophy should stay in Scotland to give them the excuse to come back and play for it again ! |
| 18 | Gerry 's champing at the bit to get back on the box |
| 19 | This gives you the freedom to move back and forth and swing your arm — you must feel free ! |
| 20 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 21 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 22 | In Berlin , Mario Vargas Llosa , the novelist defeated at the polls by Fujimori nearly two years ago , said he would ‘ knock on every door to muster international support and … force the coup-mongers to turn back ’ . |
| 23 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 24 | It is as though Wick is still waiting for the fishing to come back , drink no longer a fuel , but a solace . |
| 25 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 26 | There 's the fencing to get back to . ’ |
| 27 | wait for the light to come back up |
| 28 | Losing weight is more difficult as we get older , and it is infuriatingly easy for the weight to shoot back up again if dieting is relaxed . |
| 29 | This forced the defender to chase back and dive for the ball in the mud . |
| 30 | Whitlock paused in the doorway to look back at Rachel . |