Example sentences of "[pers pn] take back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
| 2 | I take back to the hotel a plan of the set with John 's pencilled movements on it and rewrite the scene that night . |
| 3 | ‘ I take back every word I said . |
| 4 | Oh well I take back what I said then . |
| 5 | Then I take back the paper . |
| 6 | Then I take back my Daily Telegraph , fold it to hide his envelope , and return the paper to my pocket . |
| 7 | ‘ All right , I take back what I said about the schoolroom . |
| 8 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 9 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 10 | She took back her hand . |
| 11 | ‘ And you patrol the bank every day and what you find you take back to the Man ? ’ |
| 12 | Come , we must choose some for you to take back with you . |
| 13 | ‘ They are at their home in Scotland , but Mrs Ogilvy writes that Gigia , their Italian maid whom they took back with them , is returning to Florence next month . ’ |
| 14 | Owen had him taken back to the underground room . |
| 15 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 16 | Moreover , what they take back inside themselves is an experience of the relationship in which the monster was tamed . |
| 17 | That they take back to nest that kills |
| 18 | That sugar stuff what they take back to nest ? |
| 19 | Althusser elaborates his thesis that Marxism is not a historicism at some length , presenting a critique of the historicist and humanist traditions which he takes back from Sartre to the beginning of the century , even to the Russian Revolution itself , and in which he also includes the ‘ absolute historicism ’ of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School . |
| 20 | He took back the glass . |
| 21 | At the end of the visit Archipenko told Modigliani to help himself to the fruit and vegetables in their garden which he took back to Jeanne and her mother as a peace offering . |
| 22 | What is striking is that Peada was baptized by Fínán , Aidan 's successor as bishop of Lindisfarne , at Ad Murum in the vicinity of Hadrian 's Wall , and that he took back with him four priests , Cedd , Adda , Betti and Diuma , to work among the Middle Angles , the Irishman Diuma receiving consecration from Fínán , according to Bede , as bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians ( HE 111 , 13 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Here you are , ’ he said , passing her the tiles while he took back his jacket . |
| 24 | What the government gave away with one hand , however , it took back with the other . |
| 25 | After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home . |
| 26 | It were enough for me to take back to our branch and say " it 's us against them " . " |
| 27 | What message would my right hon. Friend and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire give us to take back to our constituents in the light of recent research showing that nearly 200 of the top British firms believe that the best way to increase unemployment and inflation and decrease investment would be the calamity of a Labour Government ? |