Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] the " 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 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 7 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 8 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 9 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 10 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 11 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 12 | Catching her hand , he began tugging her back towards the car . |
| 13 | Then they started calling her back to the bridge game . |
| 14 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 15 | ‘ Mmm , that 's what I thought , so I decided to take you back to the house to eat . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 27 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 28 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 29 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 30 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |