Example sentences of "[pron] back [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face was puce with rage and frustration , but bearing a fist on the battlements where they stood looking out over the Sound , he brought himself back to calm by sheer willpower . |
| 2 | Remember that Dr Neil is entertaining two of the doctors from the hospital and Mr Sands , the curate , to dinner tonight , and I shall need you back to help me — there will be a lot to do . ’ |
| 3 | Or we can say , why do n't we push British Coal , let's see if you can get you back to work doing something different . |
| 4 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 5 | In the event that the children were to return , the issue before the Family Court in Australia would arise upon the mother 's application for leave to remove them permanently from the State of Victoria to bring them back to live with her in this country . |
| 6 | In waves they attacked , driving them back to stop the raising of the Stones which eagles had seen in other places . |
| 7 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 8 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 9 | They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 11 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 12 | You should ruddy well call them back to get it they caused the damage or failing that , claim on the insurance mind you they 'd probably say well you must get in touch with the company that did the job . |
| 13 | By alternating the process you can then bring them back to complete the song . |
| 14 | I 'll forgive you if you find me a taxi that will take me back to pick up my baggage and get me to the airport on time . ’ |
| 15 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 16 | Do n't send me back to jail . |
| 17 | God 's going to get me back to work … and I know exactly what I 'm going to do . |
| 18 | ‘ Matey will expect me back to help her . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Better take him back to ask the questions , ’ the policeman said . |
| 20 | The snow struck and drove him back to shelter . |
| 21 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 22 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 23 | In a matter of minutes , she had gathered the frightened child in her arms , soothing him , lulling him back to sleep . |
| 24 | She was usually able to rock him back to sleep quite quickly . |
| 25 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 26 | When he went away after lunch , I wanted to call him back to talk . |
| 27 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 28 | She did n't offer to take him back to meet the cast . |
| 29 | His domination of the set was only threatened at the death when the Swede , trying anything in a do-or-die effort , pegged him back to deuce from 40-love when Becker served for the set at 5–4 . |
| 30 | Now the new regime want him back to stand trial , but to get extradition they have to establish a prima facie case under British law and their system is so different from ours that their evidence wo n't stand up over here . |