Example sentences of "back [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 32 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 33 | Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst , smashing back the last barriers to her soul , and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion . |
| 34 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 35 | In addition to explaining the risks of financial loss , the warning notice also explains a number of key aspects of the operation of futures markets which may not be readily apparent to the private investor such as : ( 1 ) The treatment of collateral and the fact that a customer may lose a proprietary interest in the collateral and not receive back the same assets that he deposited . |
| 36 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 37 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 38 | He drew back the groaning bolts and turned the rusty iron ring , and the door opened inwards with a protesting creak . |
| 39 | ‘ No stock-taking ’ policies are adopted partly because of staffing shortages , but also on the premise that stock-taking is a waste of time because it does not bring back the missing books , and any item which is really important will be requested on reservation ( though a central reservation system , if employed , may mean that missing titles go unnoticed ) . |
| 40 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 41 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 42 | Belinda laughed , blinking back the sudden tears that had started to her eyes , and hoping that Tom had not seen them . |
| 43 | Why should we be worried anyhow : the longer it take everyone to realise we 're back the more victories we will pile up . |
| 44 | Juliet sat rigidly in her seat , biting back the frustrated tears that constricted her throat . |
| 45 | Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him . |
| 46 | The Communist Party had continually attacked the ILP regarding the disaffiliation issue as a temporary manoeuvre " to hold back the British workers from the revolutionary policy of the Communist lnternational " . |
| 47 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 48 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 49 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 50 | As — to many people 's surprise — Russian resistance first held up and then began to turn back the Nazi forces , the Communists , identification with the Soviet Union became their major attraction to tens of thousands of new recruits . |
| 51 | Sorry , lads , ca n't beat back the Nazi hordes today , Fred 's left the key at home . |
| 52 | She stood in the window , holding back the heavy curtains , watching as Spencer climbed into his carriage and , with a wave to her , bowled off down the drive towards the roadway . |
| 53 | Katherine crossed to the window and pulled back the heavy drapes , squinting against the pale January sunlight . |
| 54 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 55 | Only the thought of the month they still had to work together contained her rage , held back the biting comments . |
| 56 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 57 | The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries . |
| 58 | The Russians , fighting desperately to hold back the German invaders , called on the Allies to set up a " second front " in Western Europe by invading France . |
| 59 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 60 | Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district . |