Example sentences of "back [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 2 | 6 To remove the cartridge , hold the gun vertical , depress the clutch plate ( a ) and pull back the piston rod until it clears the end of the cartridge |
| 3 | EDUCATION Secretary John Patten 's relentless attempt to turn back the school clocks continues this week with the release of the proposed new children 's reading list . |
| 4 | Much to his surprise , the Doctor simply turned and left , heading back the way Mait had come . |
| 5 | Harriet pushed back the whisky bottle and poured out two sherries . |
| 6 | For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place . |
| 7 | I pulled back the shower curtain , exposing her fully . |
| 8 | Drew back the shower curtain , |
| 9 | He joined her in the bathroom , drawing back the shower curtain and shouting above the sound of rushing water : ‘ I 've got something to tell you . ’ |
| 10 | They have put back the release date nine months to September next year . |
| 11 | Before the Minister starts to make criticisms of the cost to the taxpayer of buying back the grid company , may I remind him what happened when his right hon. Friend sold it ? |
| 12 | Eureka Oxterguff , na hauff , see the Majestic , the smella lacquer in the lavvys wid 've knocked you miroc amok never mind knocking back the quarter bottle . |
| 13 | No one knows how far back the stone cider mill goes and even researchers at the Cider Museum in Hereford are n't certain of its antiquity . |
| 14 | For once the little gate was locked , but she quickly pulled back the stone bolt and slipped outside , drawing the gate closed but not relocking it : she would need to be as little delayed as possible if she were to get back unnoticed , and the first servants rose early , at the ninth hour of night . |
| 15 | Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja . |
| 16 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
| 17 | Using a technique pioneered in America , where drop-in surgery is commonplace , Waters made a three-inch incision , cut through the layers of ‘ padding ’ , pushed back the hernia sack , and then tucked in a 2½ inch by 1 ¼ inch piece of polypropylene mesh to reinforce the muscle wall . |
| 18 | We round off our German theme of this year 's Festival in welcoming back the mezzo-soprano Aylish Kerrigan with her accompanist Andreas Kerstein . |
| 19 | ‘ If I do n't come back the gas mask is no good against it . |
| 20 | We did n't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it . |
| 21 | The sudden transition from operation at the pull-out rate , where the motor is producing the positive pull-out torque , to maximum deceleration , where the motor is producing the negative pull-out torque , is achieved by " jumping " back the excitation sequence half of a complete cycle . |
| 22 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 23 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 24 | Some of the chateau guards were on the curtain walls , forcing back the scaling ladders placed there . |
| 25 | After an unsuccessful merger with Ryman , the office equipment chain , Conran bought back the Habitat name and shops . |
| 26 | Spencer Chapman , designing for ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ , managed to bring back the tricycle idea for getting the Daleks to move on rough terrain . |
| 27 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 28 | Almost rather not back the latterday England batsman ( 8 ) |
| 29 | Then cut back the pipe tails to the old radiator position , and cap off the pipe ends . |
| 30 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |