Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 2 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 3 | Well it says in the book , push them back with a stick . |
| 4 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 5 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 6 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 7 | It lay around the office for a day or two , until someone had time to open it and send it back with a brief note , giving the time and circumstances of Elsie 's death . |
| 8 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 9 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
| 10 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 11 | She had time to take things out of a cupboard , look at them , and then put them back in a cupboard lower down . |
| 12 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 13 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 14 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
| 15 | He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit . |
| 16 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 17 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 18 | They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years . |
| 19 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 20 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 21 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |
| 22 | Yeah , well I 've still got the other two but I do n't know whether Brian and Pauline are going to want them back , I mean they 've just , I 've had them back for a craft fair . |
| 23 | In many cases , one may trace them back to a very ancient past , though often the present-day festivals — surviving in the face of what is euphemistically called ‘ progress ’ — retain only a vestige of their former meaning and complexity . |
| 24 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 25 | She tried to turn her head away , but he turned it back with a gentleness that was deceptive . |
| 26 | To copy them , the pirate has to feed the program into the computer 's memory , then read it back onto a disc . |
| 27 | But MRS HARRIS was allowed to buy it back with a mortgage of £75,000 , its value at the time . |
| 28 | ANGLER David Moor , 31 , hooked a 64 pound carp — British record is 51 pounds — then threw it back into a French lake . |
| 29 | That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car . |
| 30 | The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet . |