Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 2 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 3 | People had moved back into their own homes though the camp was still in existence . |
| 4 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 5 | Lead in : Pupils could look back on their own experience of learning to read and write , and discuss why literacy is so important in our society . |
| 6 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 7 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 8 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 9 | Some drive back in their own cars . |
| 10 | The cavalry were toppled back on their own infantry , most of whom were never engaged . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 12 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 13 | Pressed back over their own blue line , Wasps rallied around their minder , Frank Killen , and held out for another two minutes before Herckerrath added a second as three of the Wasps sat out penalties in the box . |
| 14 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 15 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 16 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 17 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 18 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 19 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 20 | It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives . |
| 21 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 22 | They probably did n't have to refer back to their superiors-those mysterious Controllers , be they human or not — for instructions , they probably had their contingency plans all ready and prepared . |
| 23 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 24 | It is an agreement to which our European partners were happy to sign up , and they have gone back to their own countries to celebrate . |
| 25 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 26 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 27 | The result is that they are thrown back on their own individual and collective resources . |
| 28 | Then , still tied up , they were put back into their own car . |
| 29 | It was a damning report on America 's VD service by her international peers and colleagues , many of whom , it might be added , had little better to offer back in their own countries . |
| 30 | ‘ They 'll decide if they want to accept it , ’ said Claridge , ‘ add any modifications and then come back with their own document called the Community Support Framework . |