Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had reached the Morvan and had then turned round , but did not make it back to base , then a crash on land or sea is self-evident : if on land , only the agency — the weather , engine trouble , or enemy action — is in doubt . |
| 2 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 3 | No , you may rest assured — this house is yours , Madam Lundy does not want it back . " |
| 4 | Wainfleet did not want it back , the only reason he was carrying it around was that he had jotted a telephone number on the back . |
| 5 | I can hate , just as other designers can do , but there is also the question of education ; to be mean to people who can not answer you back . |
| 6 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 7 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 8 | ‘ I would bring something back for someone else but I would not bring it back for myself . |
| 9 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 10 | Do not send me back to Hanoi empty handed . ’ |
| 11 | And anyway , perhaps she would not welcome him back . |
| 12 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 13 | Good words will not give me back my children … |
| 14 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 15 | She I said , we may not ring them back |
| 16 | Laura could not force him back and , in a desultory fashion , he was allowed to follow in his siblings ' tracks . |
| 17 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 18 | When she was ready for discharge the youngest son said he could not take her back . |
| 19 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 20 | John Herschel in his Preliminary Discourse ( 1830 ) for the Cabinet Cyclopedia urged that while astronomers can deal with the orbits of the planets in the solar system , their inductions can not take them back to its creation . |
| 21 | She could not call him back . |
| 22 | Looking Glass chided Rawn : ‘ If the officer wishes to build corrals for the Nez Perce he may , but they will not hold us back . |
| 23 | She could not hold it back . |
| 24 | Her royal plane , she explained , could not get her back to Sandringham that early December night because of bad weather . |
| 25 | Orkney said that jockeys were worried that they were missing rides , that other jockeys would do well on their horses and that they would not get them back . |
| 26 | One evening , some weeks later , I took the cube apart and could not get it back together again . |
| 27 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 28 | We can bring you back at home or if they insist that you go back in an ambulance , you may , they may not put you back home you know , have you thought of that ? |
| 29 | Okay so you do record the role play but you do not play it back and we have fifteen minutes of feedback . |
| 30 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |