Example sentences of "[pron] back in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll ring you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 2 | I will phone you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | I want you back in four weeks . |
| 4 | Could I call you back in fifteen minutes ? ’ |
| 5 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 7 | " You will never again leave the house without my permission … and I want to know who let you back in last night . " |
| 8 | Those respondents who insisted on strict anonymity — to the extent of removing coding on the questionnaires and sending them back in plain brown envelopes — not surprisingly pointed to the anonymity factor as an attractive feature of headhunting when compared with in-house recruiting . |
| 9 | Let's put them back in safe place |
| 10 | In fact , such was my dread of returning home , I nearly managed to miss my plane , but somehow the clockwork motor inside me brought me back in one piece . |
| 11 | But it 's never held me back in any way . |
| 12 | No-one back in 1977 suspected suicide . ’ |
| 13 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 14 | You take him back in that . |
| 15 | Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 . |
| 16 | Expect him back in six months . |
| 17 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 18 | Instead of front running his customer the broker/dealer may pass the information about the customer 's position to another trader , such as a local , who makes a profit and then splits the difference with the broker/dealer , or pays him back in some other way . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him . |
| 20 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 21 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |
| 22 | Collimore in the middle do n't forget to take the ball and finally whips it in towards Collimore and Lewis heads it back in that direction and Ormanroyd with an awkward clearance . |
| 23 | Nigger picked up his scotch and tossed it back in one easy movement . |
| 24 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 25 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 26 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 27 | Took it in part exchange last week and I 've got a buyer coming Wednesday so I want it back in one piece . |
| 28 | Trafalgar paid less than £3m for it back in 1976 , five years after it purchased Cunard . |
| 29 | ‘ Although we accepted it back in 1931 , it would be a shock if it was seen today , ’ said Kerr . |
| 30 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |