Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They took us back into the main passageway , past the hall and into a small chamber where Gavin Douglas , Earl of Angus , whom I had glimpsed during the banquet , now lounged in a chair . |
| 32 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 33 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 34 | Of the other ranks , it was the desert veterans who made it back to the British lines , including Reg Seekings and Ted Badger , both of whom had been attached to B Squadron . |
| 35 | She nursed him back into the winning story . |
| 36 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 37 | She curled her fingers around the shard in her palm , slipped it back into the thin pouch of cotton hidden inside the skirts of her dress . |
| 38 | She unhooked the chair , dusted it off and carried it back to the front lawn . |
| 39 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 40 | Elizabeth chased him back into the wet again with no compunction . |
| 41 | And then you had a sort of a gadget what would slide the st there was strap coming from the pulley of the oil engine onto There was a loose pulley and there was a gadget , you could slide the strap onto the loose pulley , then that that was only just er turning loose of course , then you slid it back on the fixed and it 's be turning all this shafting along the barn and then there were pulley sets on that and in direct line with crusher and chaff cutter and the scrapping machine you had a a strap form those . |
| 42 | Ruth pushed it back into the full glare of the sun and slumped down into it , raising her face to the hot sun to absorb its rays . |