Example sentences of "and take [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 2 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 3 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 6 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 7 | Her mummy , drawn by the noise , ran out of the tent , and seeing what had happened put her arms round her to comfort her and took her back into the tent . |
| 8 | Finally a soldier arrived and took me back to the Star Room . |
| 9 | Later , in 1965 , Elvis Presley remembered the ditty and took it back up the charts . |
| 10 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 11 | Then he filled his cheap vacuum flask and took it back to the car where it completed a meal of dry crusty bread and cheese . |
| 12 | I broke the lock and took it back to the shop in La Jolla . |
| 13 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 14 | He gathered up the blossom and took it back into the house . |
| 15 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
| 16 | ‘ Jack wanted to leave a message and take me back to the auberge . |
| 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 | And take them back into the shop or send somebody else with them and er get our picture money that way . |