Example sentences of "own back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | India certainly got its own back for the British Raj by imposing this horrific version of the bungalow upon us . |
| 2 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 3 | Unable to get their own back on the media hacks , Charles and Diana seemed happy to let the comic pair , clutching drinks and slurring their words , do it for them . |
| 4 | By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont . |
| 5 | They were either born rich , or they 're getting their own back on the kids who beat them up at school . ’ |
| 6 | The Scotch Corner-based driver was beaten in the A series final by Dalton le Dale 's Ian Sandwith and was determined to get his own back in the Superfinal . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH players are out to get their own back against the team that killed their dream of a first-ever major Wembley final . |