Example sentences of "back [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty five a snatch back or the repossession type thing I suppose . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd better be getting back or the foreman will be giving me the sack . ’ |
| 3 | Since then production has started to climb back and the government now estimates that in the last three months , the economy grew by nought point six percent . |
| 4 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 5 | I ran away , back to Palma , because I could n't bear the pain of Maria Luisa coming back , wanting you back and the life all three of you shared . ’ |
| 6 | They sat still for a second , then Evans stood up and pushed his chair back and the others followed . |
| 7 | And the book is pushing back and the pen pushing on each other , so pushing out that way . |
| 8 | Investment programmes were consistently cut back and the BEA remained short of power station capacity at peak times throughout their first ten years . |
| 9 | Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude , it carried on , sinking fast . |
| 10 | Do not tug at the rope , just lean back and the rig will slowly emerge |
| 11 | Once bent away , it could n't be bent back and the rib transfer carriage would n't transfer . |
| 12 | He slept with the curtains drawn back and the top of the window open . |
| 13 | Collect patterns , take them back and the head used to pick and then we used to have to go and buy what they wanted you see , the amount of material they wanted . |
| 14 | Banbridge started the second half in more determined mood and forced Bangor back and the home side were rattled by some excellent play by the visitors . |
| 15 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 16 | And every night , before Swan arrived , he saw to it that the curtains were drawn back and the window was open wide so that the great white bird could come gliding right into the room and land on the floor beside his bed . |
| 17 | Tom then howled and snatched it back and the parents intervened to tell him off for making a noise and for snatching . |
| 18 | Inside and on the dance floor , Pete and Diane suddenly found that people were drifting back and the music was getting loud again . |
| 19 | The blanket was thrown back and the sheet was swamped in blood , thick and red like liver . |
| 20 | The scratchmen caught the bunch at the start of the final lap 28 and , with their increased pace , the two fugitives were soon brought back and the race stayed together until near the finish . |
| 21 | Then he sat back and the spell was broken . |
| 22 | The hood was thrown back and the cloak slid away from the old man 's body . |
| 23 | For a second , she lay back and the pillows and the nightmare took her , sweat ran from her pores , and she felt herself falling and the great straining of her heart . |
| 24 | Erm well we put two cats through as well so erm I think it all in all with the flights out and the flights back and the quarantine it must have been about three thousand pounds . |
| 25 | there and back and the hotel while you 're in all right . |
| 26 | The victim 's head was thrust back and the fool 's cap fell off . |
| 27 | The dog had brought the stick back and the boy threw it again . |
| 28 | It is a visual equivalent of flowering , she thought , as the last petal jerks back and the calyx lies open , defenceless , the pollen blown , come to its end ; and of the flowering of the body as it lets go , and offers up its clenched treasure , in the rush through narrow flight , in the relief of its settling , falling , dying , coming to its end . |
| 29 | They now moved back , in sympathy with the Japanese surrender , they moved back and the nationalists took Shanghai and really controlled the whole of , of south China again so that the , the old landlord system had been re-established . |
| 30 | The blankets are folded back and the printing paper slowly lifted from the plate . |