Example sentences of "[verb] me back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 3 | He led me back into the house and up to Southgate 's chamber . |
| 4 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 5 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 6 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 7 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 8 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 9 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 10 | Sank me back into the past , |
| 11 | ‘ Expect me back within the hour , ’ he called back . |
| 12 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 15 | Spare parts , says Mendoros , ‘ helped me back into the market ’ . |
| 16 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 17 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 18 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 19 | He drove me back against the wall , gave me a deep cut in the arm , and began to smile . |
| 20 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 21 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
| 22 | The conductor would send me round to the front with my fishing box , the driver would send me back to the conductor 's end and so it went on . |
| 23 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 24 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 25 | ‘ Creeping up to 40 was n't the main reason I wanted a third child , ’ says Saskia , ‘ but I was certainly aware that it would keep me back in the young-mum sphere along with the 25-year-olds . ’ |
| 26 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 27 | Got me back into the swing of things . |
| 28 | I hope Dr Vaughan will run me back in the Angharad . ’ |
| 29 | He put an arm round my shoulder and walked me back towards the church door . |
| 30 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |