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back - use in sentences
Object
- campaign: Scotsman.com Prince Charles backs offshore windfarm campaign Prince Charles has backed protests over a proposed windfarm.
- bid: Our aim is to create a growing and lasting image of London as an Olympic city that gets people excited about backing the bid.
Possessives
- button: As this page can be accessed from a variety of sections, use the ' back ' button on your browser to continue.
Adjective modifier
- full: He was a quality full back in the World Cup right now you'd swap him for almost anyone.
Modifies a noun
- pain: Women suffer more from back pain and certain injuries.
- button: Use the back button in your browser to return to this page.
- seat: Often the students do all the discussion and the professor takes a back seat throughout.
- door: Lewis has mile after mile of empty golden beaches, two of which are only 100 yards from your own back door.
- yard: The cooker was strategically placed to hide a huge hole in the wall which lead to the back yard.
- catalog: Band three is The Alarm 2002 Mike Peters and a back catalog of anthemic tunes.
Noun used with modifier
- money: All of our leather cleaning services are covered by an unconditional, 100 % money back guarantee.
Followed by a transitive particle
- up: You are, however, responsible for backing up all other files.
Preposition: of
- net: Doesn't matter how many shots you have if the back of the net doesn't ripple.
- van: Everything will be loaded onto the back of the van and secured.
- truck: I asked him if a few new Trinity's could fall off the back of a truck.
- check: Please write the event number on the back of each check.
- eye: The light is then focused onto the back of the eye by a lens.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: Stream flowing fairly well with no backing up at bottom.
- down: The council are showing no signs of backing down, however.
- off: The extra vibration from the hammer action makes chucks much more likely to back off.
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