Example sentences of "[verb] me back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 3 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 4 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 5 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 6 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 7 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 8 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 9 | She could say no more , only after a moment when he did not answer , ‘ Please do n't reproach yourself , my darling , when you have given me back to myself again . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I told myself it was because of the play , but deep down there was something driving me back to you . ’ |
| 11 | Did a year and a half there and then er promoted me and moved me back to Newark . |
| 12 | ‘ He has won me back to him . ’ |
| 13 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 14 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 15 | Then I got back my artillery , and the subdued Jackson drove me back to town . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 17 | On another occasion he drove me back to my hotel and I had to make it very clear it was n't on . |
| 18 | ‘ It was an old-fashioned impulse which drove me back to my own room before the house staff and my other guests awoke . |
| 19 | Then she got a brand new Ford Fiesta out of the garage and drove me back to where I 'd left Armstrong in Leytonstone . |
| 20 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 21 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 22 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
| 23 | Would Mills Roberts wish to retain my services as the Brigade Piper or would he send me back to Achnacarry ? |
| 24 | Do not send me back to Hanoi empty handed . ’ |
| 25 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 26 | The conductor would send me round to the front with my fishing box , the driver would send me back to the conductor 's end and so it went on . |
| 27 | I feel I am at last in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 28 | I feel I shall at last be in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 29 | Also about to go on a journey of self-discovery which must bring me back to my beginnings . |
| 30 | Immediate post-operative speech was limited to " yes ' and " no " but after two weeks the patient was able to say " no , I do n't want any " and " put me back to bed " . |