Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lay or roll back the insulation using a brush to push the material into the angle of the rafter ventilator to avoid any cold spots |
| 2 | She paused a moment , uncertain whether to follow the other two or go back the way they had come . |
| 3 | His programme — a heady mix of big spending and big cutting — may not cure Brazil 's inflation-fevered economy , slay the recession or win back the faith of foreign creditors . |
| 4 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 5 | Then the next morning when he was still sleeping it off , Doris 'd go off to the pub herself and have a few , and bring back a quart of mild , and they 'd get drunk again together . |
| 6 | ‘ You feel , perhaps , that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent and bring back a shipload of gold ? ’ |
| 7 | It really is exciting and something which it 's difficult to express and even better if we can do something for Herefordshire and bring back a winner . |
| 8 | One firm is even arranging for convoys of lorries to travel with the coaches to France and bring back the booty . |
| 9 | In the story , those invited to attend made excuses ; a response which so infuriated the host that he ordered his servant to ‘ Hurry out to the streets and alleys of the town , and bring back the poor , the crippled , the blind , and the lame . … ’ |
| 10 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 11 | It would prevent more tragedies like Michael Watson 's and bring back the skill to the game . |
| 12 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 13 | And bring back the glasses . |
| 14 | Willy away and and bring back the matches please . |
| 15 | Stuff the jacuzzi and send back the limo — Bivouac just wan na plod ! |
| 16 | You 've got to lift the whole lot off the wall and unthread the curtains and put back the right number of rings and hooks and it 's a palaver and I have n't done it . |
| 17 | Thus children have to suppress their grief , and hold back the tears and pain . |
| 18 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 19 | It was still convenient to hold that the Labour Party relied on a " left " Party " which will stand between the Communist Party and the Labour Party and hold back the British workers from following the revolutionary policy of the Communist International " . |
| 20 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
| 21 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 22 | Stones break open on the windswept high plateau and fires are lit to defy the bitter chill and summon back the rays of the sun god , Inti . |
| 23 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 24 | The ‘ Economist ’ , in March ‘ 78 , doubted whether Thatcher could ‘ forge a new majority of the right ’ and reckoned that her ‘ crusade to balance the books and roll back the government ’ was not finding much popular resonance . |
| 25 | Nicholas Ridley was a political firebrand even keener than Mrs Thatcher to dismantle what he called the nanny state and roll back the effects of years of nationalisation . |
| 26 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 27 | The days of mad spending are gone and exhibitors are looking to cover their costs and pay back the bank as soon as possible . |
| 28 | The Football Association aims to stop hooliganism and win back a good public image . |
| 29 | Because we have ‘ contrasting styles ’ , and go back a way , and are both novelists ? |
| 30 | Britain will be able to approach the European Community , and the critical period of our own presidency later this year , with determination to defend British interests and turn back the follies of the Euro-federalists , without the need for a constant backward eye upon political threats and divisions at home . |