Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 2 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 3 | ‘ But the affair went wrong — and that 's what has brought you back across the Tasman . |
| 4 | ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 6 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 7 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 8 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 9 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 10 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 11 | That would have put him back in the situation of January 1946 — forced to swallow hard decisions in domestic and foreign policy without the long-term mandate to govern in the manner that he saw fit . |
| 12 | ‘ Get up and behave yourself or Marie will have to take you back to the nursery , ’ their father ordered . |
| 13 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 14 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 15 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 16 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 17 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 19 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 20 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
| 21 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 22 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 23 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 24 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 25 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 26 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 27 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 28 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 29 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 30 | He had followed her back to the car . |