Example sentences of "[vb infin] us back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably the change caused widespread dismay , and there were riotous demands to ‘ Give us back our 11 days ’ from people who thought they were losing wages or even having their lives shortened . |
| 2 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 3 | And do n't worry : Masha will bring us back to earth tonight . |
| 4 | He would bring us back ‘ on the deck ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Which must bring us back to the UK , which had dreadful years in 1991 and 1992 and which may not be much better in 1993 . |
| 6 | but does n't that bring us back you see to clause nine , erm , is , is , is that a clause which erm which you 're , you 're suggesting is anti competitive because er agents might compete with er each other as to what if any funds they might want to pull down , or |
| 7 | up town about seven I 'll see if Bozz 's mum can take us and Cathy 's dad can bring us back cos dad 's at work . |
| 8 | She said she 'll bring us back . |
| 9 | ‘ The worst they can do is send us back tae Glasgow . ’ |
| 10 | They 'll help row us back , if we save them . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a tragedy which will probably set us back a generation . |
| 12 | A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith . |
| 13 | Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing . |
| 14 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 15 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 16 | A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster . |
| 17 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 18 | Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration . |
| 19 | Well this 'll take us back |
| 20 | Du n no , I might ask my dad cos he 'll probably take us back to the pub |
| 21 | Sainsbury 's asked for our number and said they would call us back . |
| 22 | I think that really does lead us back to the starting point which is the County Council 's view that er er that comprehensive study needs to be done as a matter of urgency and steps are being taken to get that work moving very soon now . |
| 23 | Like locust swarms we will experience a vast population crash at some point , one that will drag us back to a more natural level . |
| 24 | What ! — IM ) Do n't drag us back to pop 's godawful stack-heeled era ( Oh that — IM ) . |
| 25 | Looking Glass chided Rawn : ‘ If the officer wishes to build corrals for the Nez Perce he may , but they will not hold us back . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |
| 27 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 28 | And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police ; Lenin 's Kulaks in the cattle trains , Devil 's Island , English prisons . |
| 29 | When Silver et al talked of ‘ securing the long term future of Leeds ’ I envisaged that as meaning we have to bite the bullet a little now , but once the ground has been finished — the revenue from the Euro champs will get us back on an even keel ( maybe into the black ) . |
| 30 | We should be able to see whether our plan is optimistic or pessimistic and it should then get us back to , it 'll ring bells . |