Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 2 | RJR Nabisco 's plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its debt were received in much the same way . |
| 3 | Earlier Edberg 's attempt to win back his World No 1 ranking got off to a stuttering start when he beat Czecholslovakia 's Korda , 6–3 , 7–6 ( 11–9 ) . |
| 4 | A total of 58.7% of shareholders voted against Mr Sugar 's proposal to buy back the shares . |
| 5 | In the meantime , he could raise a harvest of tobacco , indigo and cotton , to be ripe and ready on the Hopewell 's return to ship back home to the Lord Clovelly ; a load of perhaps ten thousand pounds of goods to increase his fortune , reinforce his foothold . |
| 6 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 7 | The political consequences are first increasing loss of control and crumbling of the party apparatus , next the state 's need to fall back on the army and police to preserve its own existence , public order and , it claims , the chance of imposing painful economic reforms . |
| 8 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 9 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 10 | I try to think that my drive forward is stronger than the horse 's desire to draw back , because the moment a horse thinks about shying , he stops going forward . |
| 11 | He turned round at the corner of Queen Charlotte 's Alley to look back . |
| 12 | Dave Mitchell typifying Town 's efforts to get back to winning ways . |
| 13 | But boom in the west and bust in the east are creating tensions that could wreck Berlin 's efforts to grow back together . |
| 14 | There were tears , moments of high drama , flashes of comedy and bizarre touches — like opening her husband 's coffin to brush back his hair — and more tears . |
| 15 | I said if he beat Bruno , I would pay him a king 's ransom to come back and fight Mike Tyson in London . |
| 16 | But you have that Mark 's and Spark 's catalogue to take back with you . |
| 17 | The carefully leaked revelations about her battle with the binge-eating disease bulimia nervosa and her suicide attempts had caused her husband 's friends to hit back . |
| 18 | The last of his five victories in the Tour , in 1985 , was partly owed to LeMond , who obeyed his manager 's instructions to hold back when he could have taken the lead from an older man . |
| 19 | Julia was so interested in the cross-examination that she almost disobeyed Anthony 's instructions to go back to the Campo San Maurizio for lunch and spend the afternoon in bed , but , remembering how weak she had felt the previous evening , she did as he said . |
| 20 | Laura 's challenge to race back was uttered in that spirit , but she was the better swimmer and reached the jetty strokes ahead of me . |
| 21 | Watson and Stadler have risen from a moribund state recently but it becomes Fred Couples 's lot to hold back the invasion . |
| 22 | He refers to Ian St.John , who used the Saints and Greavsie show to publicly doubt Gazza 's ability to come back . |
| 23 | America 's threat to hit back at them is a frightening prospect for all of Europe . |
| 24 | It was not in Richard Branson 's instincts to look back , but occasionally — just occasionally — he thought about Student , and what it might have become . |