Example sentences of "push back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In the 1970s and 1980s , left-wing guerrilla groups moved into the cities , trained teenagers in the use of weapons and were then pushed back in to the countryside by the army . |
| 3 | The use of this experimental design can not exclude the possibility that Ac-ASA is pushed back out of the cell after its uptake , as a small excretion rate could not be detected in the presence of such large extracellular quantities . |
| 4 | Push back firmly against the rebate , and fix loosely , starting with the sill fixings |
| 5 | He found his arm grasped gently but firmly , and pushed back down on the bed cover . |