Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 2 | In America , brokers acting as price stabilisers arrange what is known as a ‘ green shoe ’ — an agreement which allows them to go back , cap in hand , to the issuing company and simply ask for more new shares to cover their position . |
| 3 | To encourage them to go back , the US and Britain left behind a rapid-strike force , to be stationed just inside the Turkish border , which would sock it to Saddam if he dared resume anti-Kurd aggression . |
| 4 | So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something . |
| 5 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 6 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 7 | A couple of tins of peas left out , try and find a space for them to go back in again . |
| 8 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 9 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 10 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 11 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 12 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 13 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 14 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 15 | As he pointed out , it was n't safe for me to go back on my own . |
| 16 | The day came for me to go back to work . |
| 17 | In fact , if they do have a complaint , it 's that they would probably like me to go back full time — which is very nice to know ! ’ |
| 18 | Then he told me to go back home and explain to Mum . |
| 19 | ‘ What reason is there for me to go back ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ YOU WANT me to talk about Irish history , you want me to go back that far , do you ? ’ asks Neil Jordan , not wanting to believe it . |
| 21 | A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 22 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 23 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 24 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 25 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 26 | She begged me to go back . |
| 27 | ‘ You can not ask me to go back there ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 29 | One half is telling me to get out of bed whilst the stronger half is telling me to go back to sleep as it does n't matter if I 'm late for school . |
| 30 | He told me to go back and try again . ’ |