Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 2 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 3 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 4 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 5 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 6 | Oxford United has scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time , the cross came in , Martin Foyle headed it back across the face of the goal and it 's Andy Melville that has surely clinched three vital points for Oxford United ; into injury time , Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil . |
| 7 | Did you see much of the goal , or as it was a free kick floated in and Martin Foyle headed it back across the face of goal and erm your partner in crime really at the back put it in . |
| 8 | The cross came in , Martin Foyle headed it back across the face of the goal and it 's Andy Melville that has surely clinched three vital points for Oxford United . |
| 9 | Twelve years after the Republicans moved into the White House and 13 months after the Arkansas governor launched his long-shot bid to win it back for the Democrats , the man on the defensive was Mr Bush . |
| 10 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 11 | Lee Philpott pulled one back in the 73rd minute and then super sub John Francis scored twice to grab an unlikely draw . |
| 12 | And er the sparrow thought he would maybe make it back to the mainland now so the peedie fairy climbed on his back and the sparrow flew it back to the mainland . |
| 13 | I spoke to the people , analysed the fault sent it back down the line . |
| 14 | Mrs Parvis scraped them back into the pot . |
| 15 | Experience will show you how to readjust your programme to get yourself back on the right track . |
| 16 | After each call to a PI routine , simply pressing the Return key reverts you back to the main menu from which another PI routine may be called or you may exit by entering 0 . |
| 17 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 18 | Hitch motioned them back onto The Sandhopper . |
| 19 | Then , suddenly , she was free as Leo thrust her away with enough force to slam her back against the window and set it rattling behind her . |
| 20 | It is not very close to the theatre but we can arrange for a car to take her back after every performance . ’ |
| 21 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 22 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
| 23 | In January bring it back into a cool , airy room for a few weeks . |
| 24 | The lady accompanies him back to the Alps , to wait and worry as he and his partner , Hansi Kirchner , set off up the virgin North Face of Versücherin . |
| 25 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 26 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 27 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 28 | Ronni followed him back into the sitting-room and stood awkwardly watching him as he poured himself a whisky . |
| 29 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 30 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |