Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level .
2 The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price .
3 Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face .
4 start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve .
5 In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine .
6 She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt , tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail .
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