Example sentences of "get [pers pn] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 2 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was off duty and Kate was alone , on night duty — ’ She seemed to be rambling , and Juliet wanted to prompt her , get her back to the subject . |
| 5 | Clare got her back to the house , and introduced her to Bryony , Sue , and the kids . |
| 6 | We brought him here ou , he changed his clothes from his own suit into the pied piper and erm then we got him back to the Prince of Wales Theatre . |
| 7 | Rob flew with calculated care , mindful of the lives of his crew and the need to get them back to the safety of the debriefing room and steaming mugs of rum-laced tea . |
| 8 | At Home : A good wash and brush will get you back to the groove |
| 9 | ‘ Let's get you back to the house , ’ he said quickly . |
| 10 | I want to get you back to the house and into a warm bed . ’ |
| 11 | Is your boss still being sympathetic about your problems , or is he itching to get you back to the office ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I ca n't get her back to the sea , I 'll have to become a farmer , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 'll get it back to the place . |
| 14 | If that is allowed you must get it back to the interviewer as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 16 | So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what |
| 17 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by . |