Example sentences of "[pers pn] back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll have you back to your normal self . |
| 2 | And in the morning I 'll drive you back to your own flat . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll take you back to your own room now , if you say the word . ’ |
| 4 | I ought to take you back to your own room . ’ |
| 5 | Michele met her startled glance and explained calmly , ‘ I wanted to make love to you , and I did n't fancy the idea of having to take you back to your own room in the middle of the night to save Rosa 's tender susceptibilities . ’ |
| 6 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 7 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 8 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 9 | Boilies actually encouraged the carp to suck them back to their pharyngeal teeth in order to crush them ; this in turn ensured that the large hook entered well into their mouths . |
| 10 | These reivers would round up cattle and horses and drive them back to their own lands . |
| 11 | They raid the nest , collect the pupae and carry them back to their own colony . |
| 12 | The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin , and drive them back to their own territories . |
| 13 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 14 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 15 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 16 | This brings me back to my main theme , the need for more concentrated and co-ordinated work on manufacture and distribution , for without it , we will never fully understand the history of the development of the coarse wares , stylistically or chronologically . |
| 17 | That brings me back to my earlier point about the importance of considering giving compensation in such circumstances and perhaps introducing a new code of compensation . |
| 18 | And that brings me back to my original point . |
| 19 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
| 20 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 21 | THE CRYING GAME Irish director Neil Jordan 's latest film takes him back to his best territory , the shadowy world of terrorism , crime and sexual deviance . |
| 22 | They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him . |
| 23 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 24 | Palmer now thought about testing the idea , and this brought him back to his original thoughts about the helium . |
| 25 | He had been pathetically shy and awkward , and one particularly painful experience had sent him back to his lonely flat with the firm belief that he would die a bachelor . |
| 26 | It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits — drinking and lechery . |
| 27 | If you have between you driven him back to his old ways , your souls will bear a heavy charge on the Day of Judgement ! ’ |
| 28 | Never , ’ she defended , then added thoughtfully , ‘ However , if you do get him back to his old city life , you 'll know he 's doing it for you , and you 'll be assured that he really loves you . ’ |
| 29 | Nevertheless , I rushed him back to our nearby hotel , where I cleaned the wounds and fixed three or four large Band-Aids on them . |
| 30 | Well it was , I was just trying to persuade it back to its normal cage when the , like , everywhere . |