Example sentences of "have [verb] back [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 2 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 3 | A TOP fashion designer has won back the son she was accused of stealing . |
| 4 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 5 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 6 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 7 | Brittain says : ‘ She has put back the weight , is in tremendous form — and deserves a tilt at another classic . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's , I 'm going to do things for the house like I want to make erm Chris has put back the rail over my windowsill . |
| 9 | This has held back the development of voice operation . |
| 10 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 11 | He stood smiling , licking his own with relish , and wiping the ends of his moustaches where the ice dung to them , and you and Lucia , befuddled from your interrupted sleep echoed his gurgles and grunts of pleasure at the taste ; he 'd brought back a tub , filled with a variety of ice creams : ‘ A macedonia ! ’ he 'd call out , a fruit salad of ices . |
| 12 | Over the years , she 'd kept back a portion , every week , of the money Wakelate gave her to buy food at the market . |
| 13 | He 'd kept back a portion of corned beef for the purpose . |
| 14 | ‘ I admit I 've had to cut back a little just recently , but I 'm hoping to get back into my stride really soon . ’ |
| 15 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 16 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 17 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 18 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 19 | You 'll have to peel back the carpet . |
| 20 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 21 | However , if they do n't collect you may have to pay back the 80 per cent you have already received . |
| 22 | To prove wrong those who say that any dieter will have put back the weight ( and more ) 12 months after losing it — 12 months on and 18 lbs ( 8.2 kg ) down , I 'm still a ‘ Hip and Thigh ’ fan . |
| 23 | Having slugged back a glass of plum brandy , she says : ‘ I 'm a good Christian , but I 'll not turn the other cheek if some Albanian plucks out the eyes of a fellow Serb , or rapes a little girl , or castrates a 12-year-old Serbian boy … |
| 24 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The prison staff said that was OK but said they would have to tie back the cell doors . |
| 26 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 27 | In the absence of deep-rooted democratic institutions which could have held back the force of aggressive nationalism , local groups took the form of mere channels through which the idea of the nation as an integrated family could be reproduced . |
| 28 | Crushed against him , Folly could no more have resisted than she could have held back the tides . |
| 29 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 30 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |