Example sentences of "[verb] back [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I represent a crime , and if Eric was to come back stirring things up The Truth About Frank might come out . |
| 2 | Then , when the system tightened up and interest rates rose , the debtor nations wound up paying back vast sums over the odds they had borrowed at . |
| 3 | But conversely , if the government buys back old bonds from the non-bank private sector , this will further increase the money supply . |
| 4 | THE owner of an historic Tudor mansion has been ordered to put back cast-iron gates at the entrance to his drive , at a cost of thousands of pounds . |
| 5 | A woman who is happy in her job and hates being cooped up at home all day win bring back positive qualities to the household , but on the other hand the strains and stresses of work can also leave their mark on family life . |
| 6 | The Amsterdam horror also brought back chilling memories for the people of Lockerbie , where 270 died when a Pan Am jumbo was blasted out of the sky by a terrorist bomb nearly four years ago . |
| 7 | As the full impact of these figures was borne in on the DES , it reacted by successively cutting back teacher-training places in the colleges of education . |
| 8 | The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure . |
| 9 | The Knights Panther trace their origins to the wars against Araby when returning crusaders brought back outlandish animals from the east . |
| 10 | " That 's the stuff to give the troops , " he would invariably say , curving back moist lips to the mugs brim and gulping the hot liquid down as if his throat were asbestos . |
| 11 | Again , we do n't know if this was a record but Pauline explained how she made the sweaters saying , ‘ My Brother 950i makes large motifs very straightforward to knit as you can place them on any size of garment without having to push back unwanted needles at the edges . ’ |
| 12 | I WAS ready to turn my back on Yorkshire and end an association stretching back 40-odd years over the decision to sign Richie Richardson . |
| 13 | The beauty spot brings back horrific memories for the couple ; memories of a night they were not meant to survive . |