Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 2 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 3 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 4 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 5 | Richard 's voice cut into her thoughts as he took her arm to draw her back from a horse-drawn carriage laden with tourists on a sightseeing trip . |
| 6 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 7 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 8 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 9 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 10 | But always some clerk would gather them up and shower them back from an upper window . |
| 11 | She clasped her daughter 's hand in despair , as if she would pull her back from the falsely-beckoning light . |
| 12 | In this case the simplest solution is to copy them back from the original installation disks — see Copying QBasic . |
| 13 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |