Example sentences of "take back " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are given another four or five years to bed in , no Government would dare to reverse them , any more than Labour could take back council houses from their new owners , or renationalise privatised industry . |
| 2 | When our engagement was broken off , neither of us would take back the other 's ring . |
| 3 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
| 4 | That gave me a charge that we could take back to our members . |
| 5 | Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted . |
| 6 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 7 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 8 | Celia wished she could take back the words . |
| 9 | A master who freed a slave could take back his freedom three times in succession ; after the third time it was assumed that the judgement of the master could no longer be trusted . |
| 10 | I shall use it only on your business , and if your business is done and myself discharged before your gold is spent , you will take back the balance , or I will break your teeth with it . |
| 11 | We shall take back from the richest 1 per cent . |
| 12 | I shall take back to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary what my hon. Friend has said . |
| 13 | I 'll take back the part about the rats . ’ |
| 14 | Having filed that fact away in her head , she was glad of Ven 's assistance when , passing a wine store , she asked him if there was a local brew which she could take back to her father . |
| 15 | The idea is to introduce teachers to new skills which they can take back to their pupils . |
| 16 | EGYPT has suggested that Israel should take back the remaining 396 Palestinian deportees in three stages up to June in order to end a crisis threatening Middle East peace talks , Palestinian sources said yesterday . |
| 17 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 18 | What you want is that sugar stuff what they 'll take back to nest . |
| 19 | Mm tea bags , we must take back with us . |
| 20 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 21 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |