Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great .
2 He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms .
3 She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted .
4 Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) .
5 Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea .
6 At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop .
7 By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street .
8 I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams .
9 The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet .
10 Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that .
11 I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July .
12 When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer .
13 They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope .
14 He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades .
15 Catching her hand , he began tugging her back towards the car .
16 It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased .
17 Then they started calling her back to the bridge game .
18 Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail .
19 ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’
20 I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar .
21 On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel .
22 I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’
23 When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante .
24 That really did take us back to the good old days .
25 Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company .
26 But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas .
27 No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold .
28 You had to sell it back to the council .
29 They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years .
30 Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first .
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