Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices . |
| 2 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 3 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 4 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 7 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 8 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It will bring you back to furious life . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I love him and will welcome him back with open arms , ’ she said . |
| 12 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 13 | With that she slammed the old Austin into gear , then almost as quickly put it back into neutral . |
| 14 | Granada TV who produced the original series of University Challenge said they 'd ’ welcome it back on British Television ’ . |
| 15 | Granada TV who produced the original series of University Challenge said they 'd ’ welcome it back on British Television ’ . |
| 16 | The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair . |
| 17 | I take walkabout phone outside into road and guide them back round roundabout to house . |
| 18 | A good night 's sleep would see her back to normal — sensible and rational , and perfectly capable of ignoring such ridiculous flights of fancy . |
| 19 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
| 20 | Forster slithered to Delaney and got a grip , pulling him back to comparative safety . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Those respondents who insisted on strict anonymity — to the extent of removing coding on the questionnaires and sending them back in plain brown envelopes — not surprisingly pointed to the anonymity factor as an attractive feature of headhunting when compared with in-house recruiting . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 25 | So , if we actually have everything highlighted again and we 'll actually not follow the list as in the book we 'll , if you type in alt C all your text moves to the centre go alt R everything moves to the right and alt L again it takes you back to left justified . |
| 26 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And then we 'll have to deal with that other one and er and , and resolve that one way or the other and make , make sure we 've done that reasonably reasonably quickly , either g sending her back to new business or er trying to find another position for her if she ca n't actually cope with that . |
| 29 | Speedy with a lay off and Thomson does well and gets it back to Speedy , Jochim in the middle Agnew arriving he 'll keep it er near the corner flag I think . |
| 30 | Get it back to normal . |