Example sentences of "[verb] him back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 5 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I SAID I WOULD PHONE HIM BACK WITH A DATE AND TIME , BUT DID SAY YOU WERE BUSY . |
| 8 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 9 | Whitlock shoved him back onto a tarpaulin in the corner of the warehouse and scooped up the Browning . |
| 10 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A Prime Minister , a Prime Minister second one goes I wan na go back thousand , thousand times better so erm , sends him back as a queen . |
| 13 | And he sends him back as a man . |
| 14 | They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him . |
| 15 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |
| 16 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 17 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
| 18 | A few hundred yards along the road , however , and the walking pace jolted him back to a more careful reckoning of the conversation . |
| 19 | ‘ The break came , ’ she recalled , ‘ one night when I answered him back in an ad-lib . |
| 20 | Eventually his father moved on to the pitch and , seizing his son by the right ear , dragged him back into a fielding position . |
| 21 | Bjorn Kristensen is very much in Keegan 's plans but the Newcastle boss does n't want to rush him back after a season 's absence following a knee operation . |