Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 2 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 3 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 4 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 5 | She closes her eyes squeezing back the tears . |
| 6 | ‘ So I 've got just about two years and nine months to pay back the full sixty pounds plus interest ? ’ |
| 7 | The annual demands to bring back the rope , the murmurings about repatriating immigrants , the calls to purge the nation of social welfare scroungers , were for them a sojourn in purgatory . |
| 8 | The manmade homes to bring back the otter … |
| 9 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 10 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 11 | In 1991 it passed a packaging ordinance that imposes an obligation on companies to take back the packaging in which goods are transported and sold . |
| 12 | Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence . |
| 13 | ‘ Siege ’ , in the front-page headline , had been misspelt as ‘ seige ’ , which caused Pilger opponents to fire back the ‘ Moron Sunday ’ jibe with racist jokes about stupid Ozzies who could n't even spell . |
| 14 | At the main gate of the palace officials drove back the unauthorized with the unsparing use of long bamboos to clear a passageway . |
| 15 | So far in each case where an error 's been proved , the banks paid back the money overcharged . |
| 16 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 17 | Will he seek to ensure that the banks hand back the pension fund assets which belong to scheme members and which the banks have no right to keep , given their reckless lending practices ? |
| 18 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 19 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 20 | To take one 's finger off the bounding narrative pulse of Crime and Punishment and to open The Possessed — to open it anywhere — is to find oneself out in the sticks once again : the ‘ our town ’ of the novel and the voice relating its affairs bring back the ‘ we ’ of convict life in The House of the Dead and the more sketchy collective of that remote Siberian community outside the prison walls . |
| 21 | The Emperor Nero , two thousand years ago , used pigeons to send back the results of the Imperial Games to his friends and relations . |
| 22 | With the bank 's business-start loans , firms pay back the cash not with interest but with a royalty on sales . |
| 23 | I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head … |
| 24 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 25 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 26 | Anyone who has ever had a close encounter with that lethal spirit tequila ( accurately described here as liquid plutonium ) will experience an agreeable sense of schadenfreude as the characters toss back the shots with reckless abandon , while the evocation of the hideous , hungover morning-after is hilariously achieved . |
| 27 | For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment . |
| 28 | Now Kiawah Island in South Carolina is firmly on the golfing map following September 's Ryder Cup match when the Americans snatched back the pot in that agonisingly close finish . |
| 29 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 30 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |