Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company .
2 anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage
3 I say that was naughty I normally wash them up and I put it back in there
4 My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life .
5 I realized what I was doing and decided to have this problem analyzed , and I traced it back to when I was in hospital as a child .
6 of course , when you get one of those calls and you divert it back to the switchboard or divert it direct to when you put the phone down pick it up and dial zero , so you put another call through to headquarters community affairs and its not through us
7 A person who is entitled to the temporary possession of a chattel and who delivers it back to the owner for a special purpose may , after that purpose is satisfied and during the existence of his temporary right , sue the owner for conversion of it ; a fortiori he can sue anyone else .
8 ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’
9 He fell into her arms without a sound , and she dragged him back into the storeroom .
10 She had a mop of unruly brown hair , streaked with grey , and she swept it back from her face with an impatient movement that was wholly girlish .
11 Eventually I stopped a very helpful young lady member of the staff , told her of my predicament and she guided me back to my table .
12 She reached and grabbed the tail of his long jacket , and she hauled him back down the stairs .
13 And we got it back into the family and it 's been with us ever since .
14 A trail leads above the fall , and we follow it back into a narrow gorge , proceeding carefully — at times it is only a foot wide , and 50 feet above the creek .
15 Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section .
16 I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’
17 The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage .
18 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
19 We served them up corned beef , cheese , pickles and hot cocoa , and they threw it back at us .
20 The front desk apologises for the inconvenience and they accompany him back to his room with a duplicate key .
21 , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night .
22 Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . "
23 And he sends him back as a man .
24 erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it .
25 He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it .
26 They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon .
27 She said his name , the sound of it muffled against the pressure of his lips , and he murmured something back to her , moved with sudden fierceness , and the final thrust of his body sent them both tumbling down and down into a completely new dimension .
28 No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter .
29 Her breasts were tight and painful , crushed to his chest , and he pushed her back to the side of the pool , his weight pressing against her .
30 There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat .
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