Example sentences of "back the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911 . |
| 2 | Yuletide always brought back the memories of little Matthew , taken by the plague , but not before the mite had shown Sir John the wonder with which every child greeted Christmas . |
| 3 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 4 | Er I think my wife would like to take advantage of er buying back the service of the earliest before nineteen seventy three . |
| 5 | Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team . |
| 6 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 7 | They 've called back the likes of former World finalists Jimmy Nilsen and Captain Mitch Shirra . |
| 8 | She drank it thirstily , holding back the bits of herb and onion with a teaspoon . |
| 9 | So in the first case they 've given him , the first place they 've given him six six six five allowances but then they pull back the total of those three . |
| 10 | According to one of them God drives back the waters of the sea by a strong east wind , and causes a mysterious panic in the Egyptian camp . |
| 11 | He seemed almost disappointed to be handed back the wad of notes . |
| 12 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 13 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 14 | The putsch set back the beginning of negotiations between the French government and the GPRA for a short while , but its ultimate effect was to give new momentum to the talks . |
| 15 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 16 | The French army had become relatively small and manageable ; it was now comprised of picked men ; its leaders , too , were the best available ; and its task was the specific one of taking the initiative and winning back the areas of land ceded by the terms agreed at Brétigny — and more , if possible . |
| 17 | We will back the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council and remain vigilant about ensuring high standards in satellite broadcasts from abroad . |
| 18 | The man on the moped threw back the flap of his satchel , glanced round , fingered the radio transmitter which would send the signal . |
| 19 | The woman pulled back the flap of the tent and Tallis , dying , saw a pale sun in the fields of snow . |
| 20 | D-INFLUENCE , rising London-based dance quartet , back the release of their ‘ No Illusions ’ 45 on east west with a date at London 's Subterania and a support slot with The James Taylor Quartet at Bradford University . |
| 21 | He watched a man scratch back the memory of many years . |
| 22 | It may be the song of the curlew that recalls childhood holidays on the moors and dales , the calls of oystercatchers that bring to mind the seaside , the smell of the salt , the sunshine and ice cream ; or the song of the thrush that brings back the memory of a walk , a place , a friend who shared a memorable day . |
| 23 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't be a toad and an eel , ’ floated back the voice of her brother . |
| 25 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 26 | He told himself that the office would have been an addition , built onto the end of what had before been an exterior wall of brick and therefore powerful enough to hold back the spread of the flames . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S doctors seem set to turn back the tide of support for cheap unbranded drugs — against the recommendation of the Greenfield report which was published last week . |
| 28 | Now Philips wants the EEC to take a hand in holding back the tide of Japanese machines , some of which , it says , are being ‘ dumped ’ in Europe at below cost-price . |
| 29 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 30 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |