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1. A second backfire
2. A third backfire and tyres squealing
3. To dream that you have been tricked suggests that your plans are about to backfire
4. Thus to a certain extent, that publicity might backfire
5. As pointed out before, arming groups that hate the US likely would backfire as much as the CIA's association with Bin Laden
6. To cover up a death and pretend it never happened would inevitably backfire
7. To try to keep Brendan’s survival a secret would backfire soon enough
8. was not about to backfire
9. That does backfire when another species is looking for a new planet to colonize
10. The spel would backfire somehow
11. ’ This was dangerous territory; such heartfelt confessions could easily backfire arousing contempt instead of comfort
12. ‘I’d be terrified that forcing them to face their fears would backfire and they’d feel even more inferior, having been singled out
13. It’s a PR stunt that’ll backfire if the bloody thing conks out
14. backfire on us in the long run
15. Several months later, on a day like any other day, just the backfire of a car or the crack of a stick was enough to send Henry reeling and wincing
16. That kind of tactic will only backfire on us in the long term
17. We think that rushing saves us time—but such a routine can easily backfire, leaving us
18. qualifying and setting requirements for your prospects can actually backfire on you and in fact, that happens to quite a few distributors
19. What about seeking Tara’s help to trap Roopa? After all, she might cooperate, but that might as well backfire
20. ‘It would probably backfire on you
21. There is nothing getting that angry is going to do other than backfire when you let that fireball go
22. If executed improperly though, email campaigns can backfire with
23. that confronting her face to face would backfire
24. I hope this doesn’t backfire on me, he thought as he drove off toward the station
25. Damn did it backfire on
26. Too much pressure and the plan could backfire with potentially more devastating effect
27. But this can backfire – you can preach compassion and love while actually being in a phase of aggressive self-realization!
28. Saka: Nothing can backfire
29. Unfortunately they usually backfire and make
30. “Could backfire on you
31. A backfire of centuries has chased us here, Standing on the verge of God’s Second Coming
32. he wants, because his nutty plan can't work and is destined to backfire
33. This will almost certainly backfire
34. tion, can often backfire
35. That could backfire
36. It had a curmudgeonly fuel transfer valve that Pillsbury and Douglas had to finesse into place, lest it stick wide open, slow an engine, or trigger a deafening backfire
37. He made it clear that not only wasn’t I getting any preferential treatment—any Congressman would have been (and had been) treated the same way in similar circumstances—he also thought, as a practical matter, what I was suggesting would completely backfire and not only hurt my plea agreement but further hurt my reputation
38. By the time we got to the Dominion, The Attractions and I were wound up so tight that it was inevitable that such a grandstand gesture would backfire
39. The truth was that little could be done to remedy the situation militarily and arming moderates in the region was a strategy almost certain to backfire
1. backfired on me because it cost me lots of money and my site was still lacking
2. the coffin at Homecoming had backfired
3. “I tried telling some teachers a while back, but… it backfired on me
4. backfired, but he was careful not to smile
5. It had backfired
6. The joke had backfired
7. Yes it backfired sometimes but that was less than 0
8. The bike backfired at his mistreatment and he only just managed to hold it on the road
9. The effort backfired disastrously
10. Once Libby in a confiding moment had explained how Norm used to wake up with nightmares screaming, and how once when a car backfired near them, he dived into the bushes, and was actually white and shaking when she managed to finally co-erce him out
11. off, I thought that his car had backfired, but I was mistaken
12. had backfired on him
13. I sold my usual deals and looked after the boys which backfired a few days later
14. dreaming business has backfired in a way I could never have foreseen
15. "The others were held in a small town outside of Montreal, but the less you knew of this the better, just in case it backfired on us
16. What if they used the plan and it backfired on him
17. The van backfired
18. Had news of their passage travelled ahead of them? Could it be Delmage’s folly had backfired on them all? Was the game up? This seemed to be the case and a logical conclusion reached by them all as they stepped from the stairway into an area as large as a football field populated only by airport staff, scores of policemen; and their dogs
19. She'd done something positive for the business, and it hadn't backfired
20. Jeremiah, her search for the perfect immortal life had backfired
21. At a time when the nation was grieving, when the security forces were working round the clock on rescue missions, the self-publicity backfired
22. The apparent shift in strategy from the ‘development driven’ pattern to a sharper ‘Hindutva’ identity politics has already backfired in a series of by-elections since the general elections
23. “Lamentably for the Jews, this conduct backfired, eventually,
24. was made public in the fall of 1944 but backfired
25. plan backfired because he never came to see me while he was awake
26. thing to rub in our faces but that backfired as we all know,” Amylia said
27. The ashes of your relationship with Sydney which eventually backfired left the two of you broken
28. His plan had backfired
29. The malicious officer was stricken by the very same evil that he had tried to do to another man: his evil intentions had backfired on him
30. “What does a spirit of love do?” #3's sentimental move backfired with the AS-audience, and the question immediately received only 342 likes and a terrible seventeen percent approval
31. Turning the key again, the battle-worn truck backfired, sputtered, and finally roared to life
32. My attempt at bonding seemed to have backfired but as depressing as that might have been I had a full day of interviews the next day and that lifted my spirits
33. it has often occurred that it backfired by generating anti-
34. “In other words the boons conferred upon them by Mahadeva backfired because
35. With no job, no money, and caught in the middle of a nasty divorce, it was starting to look like Jeremiah’s little plan for Cameron had backfired
36. The plan to split them up backfired miserably
37. His decision to leave her alone for a few hours apparently backfired
38. The White House strategy of attempting to discredit John Dean by supplying selected quotes of his meetings with the president had backfired spectacularly, leading Armstrong to focus on the Buzhardt memo and Sanders to ask the direct question
39. Then she’d tried drinking too much, in order to facilitate the transition into sex, but that backfired, too
40. I came in after vacation and made the conscious effort of taking things slow on the open, and as it turned out, all the opportunity was really on the open, so that backfired
41. This strategy backfired on him in his investment in Medivation, which fell about 65 percent in one day after reporting bad news
1. A car backfires in the distance
2. But it backfires when you go that step too far
3. His strategy really had me worried cause I was thinking if that backfires he ends up in a mental patient gaol, stuff that!
4. This strategy actually backfires and leaves
5. There was a fearful racket in the studio alleys, some backfires, honks, and a yell
6. The plot to kill George backfires when he hurls Patrick into the falls to his death
1. Things have a way of backfiring on you lately
2. If she had been planning to screw me over then it was backfiring badly
3. She stood in the middle of the drawing room, puzzled, not understanding what had just happened, until the sound of his automobile’s backfiring faded at the end of the street