Example sentences of "[verb] us back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 2 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 3 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 4 | Times when we all get down in the dumps , but God can always reach deep within us and put us back on our feet again . |
| 5 | Get on with it and let us back in It is a drill I suppose , is it ? |
| 6 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 7 | And do n't worry : Masha will bring us back to earth tonight . |
| 8 | Which must bring us back to the UK , which had dreadful years in 1991 and 1992 and which may not be much better in 1993 . |
| 9 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 10 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst they can do is send us back tae Glasgow . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 13 | They stitched up my face , very crudely , and then we rang a friend of this girl , who drove us back to her house and we lay and took pain-killers . |
| 14 | And now it 's all panic again , and it always will be — until we mend our ways and Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) graciously allows us back into the Store as better , wiser nomes ! ’ |
| 15 | The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair . |
| 16 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 17 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 18 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 19 | The reference to experience leads us back to Chapter 6 , for the beliefs of all religions arise out of experience and are misinterpreted at a very fundamental level by outsiders who see them as merely forms of words imposed upon people . |
| 20 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 21 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 22 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 23 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 24 | I only mentioned it because I want you to know that I realise the problems we 're facing — and that I 've got plans to put us back on our feet . |
| 25 | Our last four away games ( Ipswich , Wed. , Tottenham , Everton ) were drawn with us leading in each of the last three , we need a win to put us back on track ! |
| 26 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 29 | In a haunting , slow-motion procession , with the nine-strong cast changing into costumes of mourning as they march , the production takes us back to Leontes 's tragic court . |
| 30 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |