Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 2 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 4 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 5 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 6 | How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ? |
| 7 | ‘ Desmond , ’ said Margaret Seymour-Strachey , ‘ you 've got to get her back into that house as soon as possible . |
| 8 | I 'd like to take you back to one or two more aspects of your actual work on the railways . |
| 9 | He had had to bring her back through one of the worst storms on the North Atlantic . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll have to ring you back on that ’ |
| 12 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 13 | Infuriated by the glint of triumph in his deep blue eyes , she managed to get herself back under some sort of control , though the rivers he 'd sent surging through her body with his kisses were far from still . |
| 14 | Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two . |
| 15 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |
| 16 | Aye , I 'm trying to put it back on this rail . |
| 17 | Maxted sighed , and began to gather up his work from the floor , trying to put it back in some kind of sequence . |
| 18 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 19 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 20 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 21 | But she was n't , and she had to get herself back to normal . |
| 22 | We will establish a new Urban Regeneration Agency to pull together our efforts to clear up and develop derelict land , helping to bring it back into commercial use and provide new opportunities for local people . |