Example sentences of "back the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 2 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 3 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 4 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |
| 5 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
| 6 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 7 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was annoyed when came back the last time and I thought oh my goodness I hope I have n't given that woman any annoyance . |
| 10 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 11 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 12 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |
| 13 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 15 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 16 | The two songs were played back the next day by the tired twosome . |
| 17 | In her famed speech on election night 1987 , as she rallied her party troops on the steps of Party Headquarters not to rest on their laurels but to continue the fight ( they were to be allowed one night of ‘ marvellous partying ’ but must start back the next day with renewed vigour ) , she announced that ‘ we 've got a big job to do in some of those inner cities … and politically , we 've got to get back in there — we want to win those too ’ . |
| 18 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 19 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 20 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 21 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 22 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 23 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 24 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 25 | take it back the next day |
| 26 | She went back the next day . |
| 27 | Granted this authenticity even for the symbol , she came back the next day , nobly escorted . |
| 28 | She came back the next day . |
| 29 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 30 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |