Example sentences of "back the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment of death Jesus hands back the Spirit to God ( Luke 23:46 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Er I think my wife would like to take advantage of er buying back the service of the earliest before nineteen seventy three . |
| 4 | Mark was in a jogging phase , trying to hold back the river of age , puffing around in his new Nike Air . |
| 5 | To write a feature story on the Inaugural First Flight it was arranged for me to join the westbound plane at Moose Jaw and telegraph back the story from Calgary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He seemed almost disappointed to be handed back the wad of notes . |
| 8 | The hardware of this music machine should be capable of playing back the composition in the sounds of the instruments for which it was written . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They would not back the union in a political fight with the company , or allow themselves to be used by Clasper in a power struggle between the convener and management . |
| 13 | Delays in the determination of the final form and decoration of the palace constantly put back the date for the grand house-warming party . |
| 14 | In the passage , she stumbled and almost fell , then flung back the door to the bedroom . |
| 15 | I 'll take back the part about the rats . ’ |
| 16 | As they put it , they feel that they have ‘ put back the life into a very contented house ’ . |
| 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 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 22 | He watched a man scratch back the memory of many years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Inwardly quaking , I rolled back the stone from the dragon 's den , and stood on the threshold . |
| 25 | So I rebelled and left and immediately put back the stone in weight . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't be a toad and an eel , ’ floated back the voice of her brother . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And it would n't be me , so , that killed you , but God himself , for if he wanted you alive , sure he 'd hold back the tide for you like Moses and the Red Sea ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’ |