Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 2 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
| 3 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 4 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 5 | This man 's joy at his team 's win greatly tempered his reaction at being jabbed in the chest by a vigorous old Irish American , but even he had to retaliate when Uncle Mick pulled his cap down over his eyes and shoved him back in his seat . |
| 6 | Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board . |
| 7 | He had to walk about three miles to collect the mail and carry it back to the village , for which a charge of sixpence per missive was made . |
| 8 | In three days time , after acclimatization training , the Russian lads were to take delivery of the aircraft and fly them back to Irkutsk by way of Yakutsk . |
| 9 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 10 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 11 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 12 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I 'd shoot a hole in their heads and mail 'em back to their bossman . ’ |
| 14 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 15 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 16 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 17 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 18 | She spoke rather absently for she was remembering a vase of stiff-looking artificial flowers of an unknown species , seen fleetingly in a funeral director 's window , which now overlaid her memory of the bright Kensington shops and brought her back to the reality of her life in North London . |
| 19 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 20 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 21 | Mr Davies put his friend in his car and took him back to his flat in Highfield Road and called for an ambulance . |
| 22 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 23 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 24 | Or some of them they cut the whole floor out and weld a new take the floor old car and weld it back in again . |
| 25 | I 'll get my car and run you back to your hotel . |
| 26 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 27 | Taking all her words and throwing them back at her in silly high voices . |
| 28 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 29 | He snapped off armfuls of branches and brought them back in piles to Ratagan . |
| 30 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |