Example sentences of "[pron] back [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , and , and we will be asking you back at regular intervals . |
| 2 | I 'll ring you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | I will phone you back in five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | I want you back in four weeks . |
| 5 | Could I call you back in fifteen minutes ? ’ |
| 6 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 7 | That brings one back to previous awards , for in the absence of any other yardstick the principle of fairness requires that awards in comparable cases should be comparable . |
| 8 | Witschge pulled one back after 51 minutes and Damaschin equalised with three minutes to go . |
| 9 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 10 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 11 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |
| 12 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 13 | The kids had already been put in voluntary care due to the car crash and I could n't get them back until three months after I came out . |
| 14 | ‘ I love him and will welcome him back with open arms , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Rain feared they had drifted so-far into the events of the day of the murder that she would never draw him back to other matters . |
| 16 | Expect him back in six months . |
| 17 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 18 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |
| 19 | Where are the 365 collecting boxes for last year 's Ian Botham Walk for Leukaemia that never made it back to Corporate Communications ? |
| 20 | If you have a red cylindrical plastic container looking like a miniature pillar box with the slot in the wrong place , send it back to Corporate Communications , now . |
| 21 | Hereford and worcester will have to wait for at least five years to see if the local government review will split it back into seperate counties , but Gloucestershire may benefit before then , as avon looks like being abolished in two years time . |
| 22 | In the middle , she went away to make tea , and brought it back with digestive biscuits she had broken into quarters . |
| 23 | How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ? |
| 24 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 25 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 26 | I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back . |
| 27 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 28 | Swindon hauled themselves back on level terms after 22 minutes , when defender Shaun Taylor forced in a storming header following a corner . |
| 29 | Adcock almost netted again with a header barely a minute later but Swindon hauled themselves back on level terms after 22 minutes , defender Shaun Taylor forcing in a storming header . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean in case Blenkinsop 's successor puts us back on short rations ? |