Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 2 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 3 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |
| 4 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 5 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 6 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 7 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 9 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 10 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And I think , I 'm not sure , I think it puts it back round the other way tut . |
| 13 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 14 | That brings me back to the earlier part of our debate , from which we now know that the Labour and the Liberal Democrat parties want absolutely no constraints on the ability of a local authority to raise whatever level of tax it decides . |
| 15 | Comparing your performance with other companies ' brings you back to the real world . |
| 16 | The high speed turn at the bottom of the wave which brings you back up the same wave enabling you to continue your ride in . |
| 17 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 18 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 19 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 20 | The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism . |
| 21 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 22 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |
| 23 | All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages . |
| 24 | That brings us back to the domestic market and the attempts just 18 months ago by supermarket buyers to force lamb prices down to new depths and twist sheep farmers ' tails till their eyes popped . |
| 25 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 26 | It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves . |
| 27 | Which brings us back to the old problem , ’ she finished on a slightly bitter note . |
| 28 | This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency . |
| 29 | This brings us back to the expressive order . |