Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 3 | And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ? |
| 4 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 5 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 6 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 7 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 8 | She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS . |
| 9 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 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 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 12 | He led me back into the house and up to Southgate 's chamber . |
| 13 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 14 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 15 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 16 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 17 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 18 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 19 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 20 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 21 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 22 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 23 | Weekend reports suggest that the long-term unemployed — those out of work longer than 12 months — will benefit from a £300 million scheme aimed at bringing them back into the workforce . |
| 24 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I really ought to give them to her personally , or send them back to the bank . |
| 26 | A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market . |
| 27 | Sank me back into the past , |
| 28 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 29 | The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows . |
| 30 | ‘ Expect me back within the hour , ’ he called back . |