Example sentences of "and [verb] back [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 2 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 3 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 4 | It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives . |
| 5 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 6 | The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers . |
| 7 | Normally , with Dawn , I would just walk straight towards the perch , but these Harris 's hawks were really eager , and bated immediately the breeze got in their feathers ; that is , they tried to take off and fly back on their own . |