Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 3 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 4 | She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt , tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail . |
| 5 | As Fred said with a grin , ‘ We 'll save money by putting you back on the staff rather than pay you free-lance rates ’ . |