Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |
| 2 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 3 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 4 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 5 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 6 | And I bring back the livin' herbs , some overproof rum , some italvital dubplates and some duty-free ribbed condoms . |
| 7 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 8 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 9 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 10 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 11 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 12 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 13 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 14 | I bit back a tart reply as my master tugged at my sleeve and we tactfully took our leave . |
| 15 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 16 | Obligingly I leaned back an additional inch or two into the firm and furry pillows . |
| 17 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 18 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 19 | I pull back the candlewick bedspread and lie on my back with my manuscript . |
| 20 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 21 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 22 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 23 | Which brings back a curious memory , of canvassing a young man in a tracksuit in Cromford , Derbyshire , who stood before me arguing about education , with what John Major would call a very considerable erection . |
| 24 | And many films attacked the sort of conservative attitudes which held back the British war effort . |
| 25 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 26 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 27 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 28 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |
| 29 | Every household of eunuchs has a network of informers — sweepers , dhobis , midwives — who report back the imminent births and marriages in their district . |
| 30 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |