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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] back to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 . ’
2	‘ He has won me back to him . ’
3	Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first .
4	I wondered if the third soldier had made it back to his own lines .
5	It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us .
6	It loses impact does n't it because a the power of the voice is hit against there , b it 's very rude to talk while I 've got me back to you as well so people yes lose interest .
7	Marie 's got her back to me , watching the telly .
8	They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’
9	They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’
10	When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole .
11	She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring .
12	Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago .
13	‘ Your mam 's invited me back to the house . ’
14	But if you 'd come after me , and I 'm sure you would have done , you' d have dragged me back to England and I did n't want to leave Leinster . "
15	Their mutual interest had transcended the age difference , and he had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman .
16	Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules .
17	It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength .
18	His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor .
19	She prepared some tea for them , chatting about generalities , asking them what had brought them back to France .
20	‘ I 'm not saying you are n't still quite attractive , but you must be creeping into your early thirties , so what you need is security — and that is what has brought you back to Silas .
21	Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life .
22	There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment .
23	If you have between you driven him back to his old ways , your souls will bear a heavy charge on the Day of Judgement ! ’
24	They must have brought him back to tea with the grown-ups who would come later .
25	But Chris — Chris had brought him back to life .
26	Tony had had a bad start , 2 over after 5 , and Jack had brought it back to 1 again .
27	By 1985–6 it had brought it back to just below 50 per cent .
28	It 's it 's brought us back to J to John one again has n't it ?
29	‘ He could have followed you back to her house , could n't he ? ’
30	He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak .