Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a slow and imperfect process , but it does give them back most of their original caudal functions . |
| 2 | " And say your prayers regular , Tristram , that the good Lord may bring you back safe to us , " she added before turning quickly away to leave him face to face with Jennifer . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll bring you back any treasure we find , dear : If you wait . ’ |
| 4 | One for my own anyway cos I 've got ta give you back hundred pound for that one |
| 5 | You can bring it back next time you come . |
| 6 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
| 7 | I 've got ta give it back this Friday tomorrow . |
| 8 | WHEN my NHS three-tooth bridge had to be replaced , I found to my horror that what had cost £150 three years ago would now set me back some £650 if supplied privately . |
| 9 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 10 | Some uninterruptible power supply units can set you back several hundred pounds but smaller units , suitable for one PC , are relatively cheap . |
| 11 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 12 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 13 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 14 | We 're here until two and erm now look oh yes Alan can you hang your phone up Alan we 'll call you back sorry about that . |
| 15 | Well I 'll take you back six months . |
| 16 | That kind of education will take her back likely to what she was ; I mean , what she could have been . |
| 17 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 18 | Neither of his old clubs are in action today , but both could want him back next season , although Gosforth 's two student locks , Simon Gibbs and Alistair Meadows , have both said they will be staying with the club . |
| 19 | He thought she would probably hold them back this time , as she had mascara on . |
| 20 | I 'll pay you back one day . ’ |
| 21 | I will give half my belongings to the poor , and if I have cheated anyone , I will pay him back four times as much ’ , that Jesus exclaims , ‘ Salvation has come to this house today … ’ |
| 22 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 23 | Well we could get her back another day could n't we ? |
| 24 | If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth . |
| 25 | That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time . |
| 26 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |