Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 2 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 3 | This season quite a number of the ‘ new ’ introductions are revivals from the past , and I must say it is good to see them back . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were very popular patients and everyone is delighted to see them back . |
| 6 | It 's quite well it 's fun because I you know the people and you see them once or twice a year and it 's it 's nice to see them back and talk |
| 7 | Although they were pleased to see me back , a rift had come between the staff in the Steward 's Office and my office . |
| 8 | ‘ Do I take it you 're not entirely disappointed to see me back ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I know you 're glad to see me back , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 10 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 11 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 12 | If people got seriously ill , we had to carry them back ( to Thai border camps ) in hammocks . ’ |
| 13 | ( Picks up bowl containing tablecloths to carry them back . ) |
| 14 | At the same time artists , many of whom have already contacted the Office for Fine Arts in order to find out what will happen to their works , will be allowed to claim them back . |
| 15 | They 'll use their experience to try to nurse them back to health . |
| 16 | I called my men to drive them back . |
| 17 | to drive them back , come in the pub . |
| 18 | It took several minutes to gather them back and put them under starter 's orders . |
| 19 | To encourge them back to Oxfordshire , BBONT have launched a 2 year project to find out exactly why they disappeared . |
| 20 | ‘ I am just eternally grateful that ITN were able to accept me back . ’ |
| 21 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If the worms start to move into their burrows when disturbed , do not try to pull them back out as they can grip the sides of the burrow very strongly . |
| 24 | She did not bother to pull them back . |
| 25 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 26 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 27 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 28 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 29 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 30 | Edwin Keith gave Bordon a handy lead with two headed goals , but a rare lapse in defence enabled Beaumont to pull one back and it remained 2–1 at the interval . |