Example sentences of "back [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 2 | ‘ It might not be but it 's the godalmighty truth , ’ he asserted so playfully back that the whole table laughed . |
| 3 | He told Channel 4 's Answering Back that ‘ a touch on the brake to reduce excess demand ’ was all that was needed . |
| 4 | In June 1981 the CPRS reported back that there was indeed a commercial case for electrification but that the programme should be endorsed route by route rather than in some all-embracing fashion . |
| 5 | Charles whispered back that it was utter tripe the Brigadier was waffling . |
| 6 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 7 | North reported back that the line was working ; the Second Channel had noted to Cave ‘ that RR being a man of God had removed the only argument they had — that Allah was on their side . ’ |
| 8 | In 1900 the two senior deacons were appointed to look into three cases of ‘ non attendance to the table ’ and reported back that there were twenty-one cases out of a membership of 109 . |
| 9 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 10 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |
| 11 | It was only when they found the man who had taken the car back that the shop manager told him . |
| 12 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 13 | It had become obvious a few years back that this was a problem for Britain . |
| 14 | The interviewer will expect you to be slightly nervous , indeed may be rather alienated if you are so laid back that you appear almost indifferent . |
| 15 | Three days after the Secretary of Defense was charged by the Washington committee to obtain the package of diamonds demanded by Zack , he reported back that the task was taking longer than foreseen . |
| 16 | The reply came back that the PM was ‘ too busy ’ working on a request for a massive loan from the IMF to meet him . |
| 17 | ‘ We worried about her but Elizabeth wrote back that she was more worried about us back here going into London with IRA bombs going off . ’ |
| 18 | EVER since Geoff Cooke told Neil Back that he was too small to play for England , the Leicester flanker has reached for the stars — and flattened most of them . |
| 19 | I saw from the papers some time back that you were acting again ; I 've followed every turn of your fortunes , I can tell yer . |
| 20 | The Knight Marischal shouted back that since it was unthinkable that any such deed would be carried out , and a disgrace to the knightly code that it was so much as suggested , there would be no yielding up of the town . |
| 21 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 22 | RIDDICK BOWE is so laid back that he does n't look like a man capable of starting a fight , let alone finishing one . |
| 23 | Paul Rogers missed an even easier chance when Adrian Littlejohn split Liverpool 's defence with a low cross , and Brian Deane sent a point-blank header wide , both in a second-half come back that had Liverpool wilting . |
| 24 | I would hiss back that the former would cover either situation , whereupon he would advance with a broad smile . |
| 25 | I lied and shouted back that I did n't know where it was . |
| 26 | Once the spotman reported back that Jessamyn Amanda Bonney was in Dead Rat , Manolo had called in Holm Rodriguez from Denver and Susie Terhune from Phoenix . |
| 27 | Each enemy hit by a net can not attack back that turn assuming he has not already done so . |
| 28 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 29 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 30 | And it is by the quality of these records that he brings back that he will ultimately be judged . |