Example sentences of "and [verb] them back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 2 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 3 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 4 | Funded by the Londonderry Regeneration Initiative , the task of the project team is to listen to the views of individuals and communities and relay them back to the board . |
| 5 | Always write messages down at once , and read them back to the caller so that they can be checked . |
| 6 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 7 | Any new development of another Left party could only be an attempt " to reach for the Leftward workers and draw them back to the basic Labour line " . |
| 8 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 9 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 10 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 11 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 12 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 13 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 14 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 15 | Unless we were adding value to the constituent parts of the group it seemed to us that our plain duty would be to break the group into smaller constituent parts and hand them back to the shareholders . |
| 16 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 17 | His special task was to kidnap mortal women and take them back to the fairy mound where they would be employed as wet-nurses for fairy children . |
| 18 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 19 | Klepner will take over the files and ship them back to the States . |
| 20 | In January the United States National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , which managed US research in Antarctica , said that the United States would allocate US$30,000,000 to finance a plan to remove hazardous wastes from Antarctica and ship them back to the USA for treatment . |