Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 3 | Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp . |
| 4 | We had a row , but telling the police we had a row is n't going to bring her back to life and it is n't going to find out who killed her , because I did n't . ’ |
| 5 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 6 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |