Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four . |
| 2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 3 | She gulped , unable to continue speaking as she fought to keep back the tears that were threatening to fall yet again . |
| 4 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 5 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 6 | Your mouth goes hard and ugly as you try to choke back the tears , but it is honest . ’ |
| 7 | Rachel bit her lip as she struggled to hold back the tears . |
| 8 | If you had n't come along when you did … ’ she trailed off as she struggled to hold back the tears . |
| 9 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 10 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 11 | So much she wanted to fling back the covers , light incense and candles , worship this adored body . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a double-action revolver , which means you have to pull back the hammer to cock it before firing . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If we have to give back the kettles and toasters , we 'll have nothing left . ’ |
| 14 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 15 | Furthermore , they agreed to buy back the land at the purchase price should the venture fail . |
| 16 | ‘ They want to bring back the tsar . ’ |
| 17 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 18 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 20 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 21 | Secondly , he needed to get back the coins and the letters without publicity which might reach his wife or the police . |
| 22 | Let's face it … ’ he reached to smooth back the curtain of tousled gold curls from her eyes ‘ … we hardly know each other . |
| 23 | He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee . |
| 24 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |