Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 3 | Reality overtakes it and it has n't the reserves to claw back . |
| 4 | Mr Sherwood has offered to raise $1.1billion from the sell-offs , and would use at least half the proceeds to buy back stock from shareholders at $70 a share . |
| 5 | It states that Aksum was eight days ' journey inland from Adulis , a port on the Red Sea established by Greek traders sent by the Ptolemys to bring back elephants to be trained for war . |
| 6 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 7 | In fact erm there are now , you could say , too many teachers in the system overall , and that 's why there are new proposals erm both in the colleges and in the universities to cut back on the number of teachers that are being trained . |
| 8 | They would have to send their gear out to be reviewed , and wait for the reviews to come back to know whether or not the product was any good ! ’ |
| 9 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 10 | Can we endorse that , and ask the officers to come back to us and keep us in touch with their work . |
| 11 | The council 's fund established after Mr Ridley blocked the deals to pay back any losses is currently less than £20m . |
| 12 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 13 | ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’ |
| 14 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
| 15 | On appeal , it was argued for the miners that the instructions to turn back were unlawful , and the police had no power to require them to turn back . |
| 16 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 17 | An emergency session of EC Foreign Ministers held in Oslo ( where most were gathered for a NATO meeting ) nevertheless ruled out any renegotiation of the Treaty while declaring that the " door remains open for the Danes to come back " . |
| 18 | The part-empty container is then taken off its rack and put back on the ground briefly to allow the hoses to drain back into it . |
| 19 | ‘ After the disappointment of losing to Germany , we showed we had the guts to come back . |
| 20 | There were at least the photographs to fall back on . |
| 21 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 22 | The overhang was cleared , enabling the shares to bounce back to 356p , down 2 on balance . |
| 23 | This caused the price of the shares to fall back . |
| 24 | So they swing a bit of incense about , and wait for the workmen to come back and investigate . |