Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 2 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 3 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 4 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 5 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 6 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 7 | Mid-way through the scene , his anger at the taking of his wallet by one of the policemen is apparent in the disjointed nature of his outburst , but his turn peters out timidly as " MAN 3 gently pushes him back into the chair " ( p. 67 ) . |
| 8 | This strategy marks a structure of repetition in Sartre 's text : each time he poses the question of how there can be totalization of History without a totalizer , he retreats to a more limited example whose unity is already evident , but which in the end only brings him back to the original question again . |
| 9 | But despite Mr McDonald 's frantic efforts , the kiss of life was not enough to bring him back from the dead . |
| 10 | They had not expected him back before one o'clock . |
| 11 | I just want him back with me |
| 12 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 13 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 14 | Iago soon brings him back to the ‘ foul ’ image : ‘ I will chop her into messes — cuckold me ! ’ |
| 15 | Sugar insists : We do n't ever want him back at club |
| 16 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 17 | Artemis sat him well , and quickly brought him back under control . |
| 18 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 19 | There were certain crescendos when a particularly macho spectator would sweep a Bisu off his feet and kiss him furiously before roughly throwing him back into the circle again . |
| 20 | The agency now wanted him back in Lebanon for two reasons . |
| 21 | But I do n't want him back into your life . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't expect him back until mid-afternoon . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We could n't send him back to England . |
| 24 | And we , we just stood aside from that and said to the employer , look here , if you do n't bring him back on Monday , erm I 'm afraid there 'll be nobody here tomorrow right . |
| 25 | You have n't brought him back with you , then , ’ he commented derisively , ignoring the hand she had held out him . |
| 26 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 27 | And you have n't allowed him back in ? |
| 28 | erm , he would n't leave in case they would n't let him back in after modernizing . |
| 29 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 30 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |