Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] back to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
2 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
3 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
4 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
5 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
6 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
7 | The hunt was called off : the whippers-in and the huntsmen despatched , Benjamin ordering them back to the manor and telling them to bring down two stretchers , wine and bandages . |
8 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
9 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
10 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
11 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
12 | And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy . |
13 | ‘ Sit down again , pray , ’ pleaded her hostess , reaching for her hand and pulling her back to the sofa . |
14 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
15 | Then they started calling her back to the bridge game . |
16 | The heart , or the inner life , is therefore a great teacher , pointing us back to the source of all happiness — to God himself . |
17 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
18 | In savannah trees , the male advertises the nest and pursues a female that approaches him , bringing her back to the nest after a chase . |
19 | Rune 's pleasant voice penetrated her thoughts , bringing her back to the present with a small start . |
20 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
21 | ‘ We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time . |
22 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
23 | Posting you back to the Alamo ? ’ |
24 | Taking you back to the poly manager , if somebody says , somebody says to you , ‘ Well what are you doing about it ? ’ you say , ‘ I do n't know at the moment , have n't got enough facts . ’ |
25 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
26 | Collecting information to input onto a database could offer a very valuable means of " taking something back to the classroom " from a field visit or museum visit for this age group ( see Figure 2.8 ) . |
27 | Oh , yes — yes , of course , Belinda , ’ she said , dragging herself back to the present . |
28 | It was a nostalgic sound , taking him back to the flat in Notting Hill where he and Frances had started their married life ; and started Juliet ; and , in a way , started living apart . |
29 | There had been no acquittal since they were taking him back to the prison . |
30 | ‘ We are taking him back to the institution . |