Example sentences of "took back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took back the glass . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | when sea took back the land ; |
| 4 | On Hilda Machin 's nodding , Mr Kronweiser calmly took back the copy of the short story and the original manuscript , clipped them together , and put them back carefully in their right place in the drawer . |
| 5 | Cornelius took back the picture and tucked it into his top pocket . |
| 6 | Four steps backwards — another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook ! |