Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 2 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 3 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 4 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 5 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 6 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 7 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 8 | Faced by the Greek leaders come to manipulate him back to the war Achilles stalks off before they can reach him , pointedly speaking prose : ‘ Come , Patroclus , I 'll speak with nobody . |
| 9 | " This is the course of lectures your daughter is taking , " she said trying to bring him back to the matter in hand . |
| 10 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 11 | Bjorn Kristensen is very much in Keegan 's plans but the Newcastle boss does n't want to rush him back after a season 's absence following a knee operation . |
| 12 | He ran back to the ferry house but Mrs Stevens refused to take him back across the river . |