Example sentences of "[to-vb] back a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement . |
| 2 | Like you say , a couple of days off now and then , you seem to come back a little bit more fired up . |
| 3 | and it 's beginning to grow back a little bit . |
| 4 | She used the cloth to slide back a hot glass plate and extract a rather tired looking object . |
| 5 | Erm , just to go back a wee bit to the thing about th the image and and the fight that we have on our hands er , to actually break into the media , I do n't , I think people underestimate the control an and er the feeling that men have that it 's their game and we 're not gon na take it away from them ! |
| 6 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 7 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 8 | Emigrants , feeling the cold hand of death upon them , would summon up their memories of home and their failing strength , to send back a final message . |
| 9 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 10 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 11 | To get back a miserable ring ? |
| 12 | Develop a thick skin , harden her heart , learn to bite back a stinging retort and invest in a good supply of patience ! |
| 13 | The two sealing vessels that illegally hunted in Greenland waters in 1991 , the Polarfangst and the Polarstar ( see BBC WILDLIFE , October 1991 ) , have been forced to pay back a large part of their government subsidies — £50,000 and £30,000 respectively . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ he said slowly , put up his hand to brush back a lustrous curl which had strayed from its bonds . |
| 15 | I hope that a general election will be declared soon , that it will be fair , and that it will serve to bring back a decent system . |