1. He said he'd read my funny story and had laughed twice, which was a sort of back ________ compliment.

2. After all why should you two continue to be free and I have to give up my ________ ?

3. She was a very famous film star some 40 years ago but now she's regarded as unimportant a sort of back ________ .

4. She puts it another way and says she will be able to make an ________ man of me.

5. I strongly recommend that restaurant as I was very ________ with how quickly they brought the food.

6. And now I come to a very important ________ I want to ask of you.

7. Of course if speed is the most important thing, you can always ________ up your lunch from the take away cafe.

8. Where we live is a sort of back________ because nobody here knows what's going on in the world.

9. There is nothing worse when you take important clients out for lunch to find that the choice of dishes is very ________ .

10. He's having trouble with his mother-in-law because she likes to control everything rather like a backseat ________ .