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Example sentences of "[pron] back [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As you drive from our patchwork countryside into towns like Saumur , Angers , Nantes or Le Mans , your journey takes you back hundreds of years .
2	We 're here until two and erm now look oh yes Alan can you hang your phone up Alan we 'll call you back sorry about that .
3	It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway .
4	When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day :
5	‘ Can you back that up — except as a theory ? ’
6	I 'll pay you back one day . ’
7	If this happened you have the right to contest this in court and a court may decide to give you back parental rights .
8	Well I 'll take you back six months .
9	As well as the ability to install itself automatically and to give you back extra chunks of available memory , QEMM has the added benefit of Stealth .
10	One for my own anyway cos I 've got ta give you back hundred pound for that one
11	Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs .
12	Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs .
13	Some uninterruptible power supply units can set you back several hundred pounds but smaller units , suitable for one PC , are relatively cheap .
14	‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model .
15	‘ We 'll bring you back any treasure we find , dear : If you wait . ’
16	" And say your prayers regular , Tristram , that the good Lord may bring you back safe to us , " she added before turning quickly away to leave him face to face with Jennifer .
17	‘ I 'm just glad to have you back safe and sound . ’
18	But she back Norwegian land so she ca n't .
19	It 's one step forward and one back all the time with him .
20	but no I mean I i mean I 've lost a lot of good friends on it , and I would love to see them back alive but , there 's nothing much I can do about it .
21	When scripts arrived he sent them back unread .
22	Then if you want if you want to invite them back that 's right , yes .
23	‘ I 'll slice strips of y'black skin and peel them back one by one , like a damned banana . ’
24	please look after them and bring them back each day , you 'll find a bandage and a roll of bandage in there and so their your own properties
25	Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested .
26	But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level .
27	‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged .
28	She says according to Trina she says eh I , I , I did n't er , er , I wanted , knocked them back seven hundred thousand , but they would only , would only knock back a hundred and fifty
29	He thought she would probably hold them back this time , as she had mascara on .
30	We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing .