Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Richard 's voice cut into her thoughts as he took her arm to draw her back from a horse-drawn carriage laden with tourists on a sightseeing trip . |
| 3 | Webster 's increasing debts pulled him back from a contest , but he again bounced back to contest the Chichester borough elections in 1823 , 1826 and 1831 . |
| 4 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 5 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 6 | But always some clerk would gather them up and shower them back from an upper window . |