Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 2 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 3 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 4 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 5 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 6 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 7 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 8 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 9 | The others hauled her back from the edge . |
| 10 | This ‘ hands-off ’ status meant social security money could be obtained by charging residents , who would claim it back from the DSS , but staff for the homes were provided by the health authority 's mental handicap unit through a separate agreement . |
| 11 | I was still holding her back from the window , and wondering what to do next , when Mr Edgar entered . |
| 12 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 13 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 14 | The last two singles , ‘ Dragging Me Down ’ and ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and new one ‘ Generations ’ have pulled them back from the margins that the rambling excesses of ‘ The Beast Inside ’ threatened to confine them to . |
| 15 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 16 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 17 | Mary pulled her back from the window and closed it . |
| 18 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 19 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 20 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 21 | She could go down in history as the leader who pulled us back from the brink . ’ |
| 22 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 23 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 24 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
| 25 | She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door . |
| 26 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
| 27 | It seems to take ages to get them back from the printers . |
| 28 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 29 | She clasped her daughter 's hand in despair , as if she would pull her back from the falsely-beckoning light . |
| 30 | Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life . |