Example sentences of "[verb] them 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 She had time to take things out of a cupboard , look at them , and then put them back in a cupboard lower down .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car .
9 The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet .
10 The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price .
11 ah , well better take them back after a while then
12 She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt , tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail .
13 You 'll have them back in a minute what you done with them ?
14 It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession .
15 His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before .
16 And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again .
17 yeah , go on , cos I 'll get them back in a minute wo n't I ?
18 If their work is seasonal , do n't forget to change them back to a standard adult food ( so-called ‘ maintenance food ’ ) when they 're not working .
19 I know it looks rather exaggerated but I wanted them back without a lot of questions . ’
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