Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 2 | For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was , and remained unthinkable . |
| 3 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 4 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 5 | Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish , a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 7 | There was an overwhelming stench of stale urine and sweat from inside the freight car but Graham swallowed back the rising bile in his throat and eased the door open further to see what else it might contain . |
| 8 | Bullock had been one up after 15 holes but Davies pulled back the deficit at the 16th and held on to finish the match all square . |