Example sentences of "back [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company puts back controversial plan for waste incinerator . |
| 2 | With three sets of windows serving five levels , the lower mezzanine floor was held back 1.2 metres from the outside walls to avoid the ugly juxtaposition of window and floor edge . |
| 3 | Since publication of our book Eighteenth-century English Furniture : The Norman Adams Collection we have bought back eleven pieces as a direct result of Americans seeing their furniture illustrated therein . |
| 4 | We need to know that all those who are taken on as interpreters by the Home Office are responsible people and will not pass back that kind of information . |
| 5 | Dash back that ocean with a pier , |
| 6 | And these are sorts of facilities which we 'll will need if we 're going to erm enable central I S or I T departments to use and therefore charge back that facility to each of the departments using that resource . |
| 7 | Then he added , ‘ Nowadays , when the shepherds come back that way in spring , they prod every square inch of snow with sticks in search of buried frozen tār . ’ |
| 8 | Gim me back that bottle of Sainsbury 's Cider … |
| 9 | ‘ My own fault , ’ he says suddenly , flicking back that lock of troublesome black hair . |
| 10 | But to return to sea-birds and the possible causes of the problems they are facing today , we must look back fifty years to the last war in Europe . |
| 11 | Bend back right hand at right angles to arm |
| 12 | Seasoned Cook BRING BACK HANGING Beef at its best is well hung , marbled with fat and very Scottish |
| 13 | Hopeless romantics , Sox fans come back each Spring for more , but by the time of this Orioles game last year were already conceding that the 1991 team was not one on which to pin their perennial dreams . |
| 14 | Generally , then , the basic objective is to build up a strong framework or system of main stems , and to develop lateral side shoots which are pruned back each spring to 3 or 4 inches ( 7.5 or 10cm ) , with a terminal bud pointing in the right direction to fill spaces and gaps . |
| 15 | The team are cutting back hazel bushes to ground level across two acres of woodland . |
| 16 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 17 | It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't like to walk back this way on my own , ’ she said . |
| 19 | a letter back this week from him . |
| 20 | But hosiery companies are fighting back this Christmas with some flamboyant stockings and tights designed to liven up the festive party season . |
| 21 | Our 1989 Gardeners of the year , Hilary and Norman Sharp , have sent back this report from their holiday prize in Penang and Singapore |
| 22 | Having bought back this establishment from his former employers , Trusthouse Forte , his new freedom from the body corporate has inspired him to create a serious £23 dinner menu and leave the comfortable grey-blue decor well alone . |
| 23 | You 've got to bring back some deterrent to this bloody country , otherwise the next thing you 'll be getting is vigilante groups , and if you get vigilante groups then this country is in a hell of a bloody state and you will have bleeding trouble . |
| 24 | Mother Francis had never given up hope that Eve would live there one day , with a family maybe , and bring back some happiness to the little house that had known only confusion and tragedy . |
| 25 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 26 | ‘ They had to get rid of the offensive literature , they could n't burn it , so they scraped it off and grafted back some skin from my arse … |
| 27 | The sight of her brought back some Sunday in India . |
| 28 | And there was plump , placid , erotically drained Stuart beside me , looking so fucking … blithe , pretending it was nice to be met at the airport , and probably thinking about how he was going to claim back some Danegeld on the unused half of their return billets from Gatwick to Victoria . |
| 29 | Some countries — such as France — see EMU as a way of winning back some power from the West Germans , since a European central bank would mean all the members of the EC having a say in how policy is conducted . |
| 30 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |