Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 2 | Indeed , when the bruises came back they were larger , more ragged . |
| 3 | It will only be the fourth year before the accounts go back to independent examination . |
| 4 | The men in the flames come back to him night after night . |
| 5 | In 1598 , the estates reverted back to Maximilian Dalison , although it was not until 1601 , that he regained his full inheritance , and it is unlikely that he spent much on the maintenance of the buildings as it appears he was always short of cash . |
| 6 | So please could you arrange to have the hedges trimmed back as soon as convenient . |
| 7 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 8 | Instead of scurrying away to hide in the weeds , the ducks came back . |
| 9 | Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away . |
| 10 | Bomber Command never overcame the problem of the weather , right to the bitter end , and right to the end the Germans fought back . |
| 11 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 12 | But the chances of Paris opening the decade with a momentous show were always dashed when the Germans held back the three most significant new cars still due this year — the new Audi 100 and BMW 3-series in a matter of weeks and the Mercedes S-Class by months . |
| 13 | Mr Mike Widmer , managing director of Caldair which owns United , Teesside Motor Services and Tees and District Buses , claims the debts date back to 1989 and are a result of the concessionary fares scheme . |
| 14 | It was strange having a sickle between her legs after all these months , but the reactions came back . |
| 15 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 16 | The guards were changed and the prisoners settled back onto the luggage racks or the floor or the upright wooden seats to sleep . |
| 17 | It was a hard-fought battle on both sides , but eventually the Orcs began to gain the upper hand , and the knights fell back before them . |
| 18 | The Austrians , by weight of numbers , won the day ; the Russians fell back and held their foe only some 18km/ 11mls from Lublin . |
| 19 | I mean if you stick it out with Hotpoint and hope that the hours come back , if the hours come back you 're gon na be earning a lot more money are n't ya ? |
| 20 | I mean if you stick it out with Hotpoint and hope that the hours come back , if the hours come back you 're gon na be earning a lot more money are n't ya ? |
| 21 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 22 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 23 | If the monies are not claimed after a further period ( usually 6 or 12 years ) then the bidder will be released from its payment obligation and the moneys paid back to it . |
| 24 | One , Wisal Wehbeh , said : ‘ I will never feel safe until militias are disbanded for good because the minute the Syrians go away , the militiamen come back . ’ |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 27 | The signals reflected back from solid objects like these skulls form an image which can be enhanced by a computer . |
| 28 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 29 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 30 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |