Example sentences of "men back " in BNC.
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| 1 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 2 | You turn men back into dust : saying ‘ Return to dust you sons of Adam ’ ( Psalm 90 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ How practical women are , leading men back to simple realities . |
| 4 | This time the waiting women got their men back — most of them . |
| 5 | It was then that James John Weeble , a deaf man from Redruth , came upon the scene , and swam out fully-clothed , and succeeded in dragging both men back to the beach . |
| 6 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 7 | Jonadab sent the men back to Aumery Park , noting that the snow had stopped and the coming evening was bright and crisp . |
| 8 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got to be fair to Kaiserslautern , they did not pull nine men back behind the ball , they had a go at us . ’ |
| 10 | They had brought Agency men back to Andrews , in caskets , from Europe , from Lockerbie , from Lebanon , from Central America . |
| 11 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 12 | The Hussar Captain called his men back . |
| 13 | He led his men back to Charleroi where a desultory musket fight was flickering across the river . |
| 14 | For that was how long it took before the monsoon carried these men back home again . |
| 15 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 16 | Get your men back . |
| 17 | Upon taking up his position Barratt 's first action was to stop all mining for two months before allowing the men back , to work in a more orderly fashion . |
| 18 | Webb takes over three against three at the moment though Leicester getting men back quickly . |
| 19 | Leicester have got so many men back in their own half he 'll do well to make anything of this Collimore . |
| 20 | When Charles left for Italy in 877 , among his chief concerns was the maintenance of efficient communications with his faithful men back in Francia . |
| 21 | He was interested in how far Siward had taken his men back into the untouched part of the forest , where the clearing kept for the highway from Dunedin to the Forth crossing had encouraged the fire to turn to one side , helped by the slight change of wind . |
| 22 | really needs the whole twenty men back to start viable production again . |
| 23 | He called the men back . |
| 24 | Carole laughed as she and Laura followed the two men back towards the house . |
| 25 | Once extradition has been granted , then officers will bring the two men back to this country and place them before the courts here . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 28 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 29 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 30 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |