Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [pron] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was ill , and she brought it in and nursed it back to health . |
| 2 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 3 | He used her , discarded her , then paid her off and sent her back to Ireland ! |
| 4 | There , they would check it off and whoosh it back to you with the customer 's change and the docket stamped . |
| 5 | She took them off and gave them back to him . |
| 6 | Something put his hand on Anne 's bottom , but did not seem to mind too much when she peeled it off and gave it back to him . |
| 7 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 8 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 9 | The buzzard flew to the king 's palace , waited , perching in an oak tree , until the princess came out for her evening stroll , and then picked her up and carried her back to the forest , holding her as carefully as if she were made of rose petals . |
| 10 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 11 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 12 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 13 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |