Example sentences of "[pron] back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If this happened you have the right to contest this in court and a court may decide to give you back parental rights . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just glad to have you back safe and sound . ’ |
| 6 | But she back Norwegian land so she ca n't . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When scripts arrived he sent them back unread . |
| 9 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 10 | ‘ They took away our films , developed them and gave them back damaged . |
| 11 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 12 | I went out full , but the Lord has brought me back empty . |
| 13 | ‘ Give me back Crazy Jake 's cup . |
| 14 | However , a six at the 14th brought him back level with Woosnam . |
| 15 | She says they keep her back warm . |
| 16 | That kind of education will take her back likely to what she was ; I mean , what she could have been . |
| 17 | And even if it meant bringing her back empty , he was still bringing her back . |
| 18 | Sometimes she 'd yelp and try to run away with her back hunched and her bushy tail sweeping the ground between her legs . |
| 19 | And hold it back undissipated too . |
| 20 | unless it 's the but er if you 've forgot it back good reason for handing it over so yeah I mean I , I think that well I 've given you the , the , the strength if you like we can see it , perhaps a little bit more open questioning would n't go amiss would it ? |
| 21 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 22 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 23 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 24 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 25 | Each horse had his own harness ; and if it could n't be spared to be sent down to the shop for repair , the horseman brought it himself , got it seen to and took it back ready for work on the next day . |
| 26 | She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be . |
| 27 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
| 28 | Whatever the pragmatics of the decision , however , a closer look at the New Testament and the justification which the early Christians chose to give for abandoning circumcision reveals much about the ritual and ironically brings us back full circle to the notion of gendered blood and the whole culture-nature : male-female scenario . |