Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 2 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 3 | Yesterday he told the court Kim threatened him with the knife after inviting him back to her flat . |
| 4 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 5 | They stood , in silent vigil , at her side : Tiguary implored the chief to find a way of bringing her back with them , offered himself in exchange , but Ariel knew that Sycorax could still not be moved any distance without endangering her life . |
| 6 | Thus it is a general policy to ensure that mineral working is carried on ‘ with proper regard for the appearance and other amenities of the area ’ , and that when the working is finished the land should ( wherever practicable ) not be left derelict but ‘ restored or otherwise treated with a view of bringing it back to some form of beneficial use ’ . |
| 7 | Was this his way of paying her back for trying to sneak Kirsty down to London ? |
| 8 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 9 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 10 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 11 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 12 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 13 | Was there no thought of sending him back to his father ? ’ |
| 14 | Henry sent envoy after envoy to Richard in the hope of calling him back to his side , but not even when he used an ambassador as distinguished as the Archbishop of Canterbury was his son to be persuaded . |
| 15 | Here , after all , was a President prepared to take the economy seriously and to begin the long process of hauling it back into some semblance of order . |
| 16 | The other most common fault at this stage is for the knitter to put all the needles for the second side into UWP , instead of taking them back to B position with the transfer tool . |
| 17 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 18 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 19 | They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect . |
| 20 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 21 | Moreover , if there are too many beds people will inevitably stay too long , which increases the difficulties of resettling them back into normal life . |
| 22 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 23 | If it already runs a back to nursing course then it will also have established a policy geared towards attracting you back to work . |
| 24 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 25 | ‘ Bryan had an exceptional start to the season and that certainly was my reasoning behind bringing him back into the Turkey game , ’ said Taylor . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I 'll work out a route for getting us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe the day after we can think about getting you back down the mountain . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And you did very successfully , until your mother saddled you with taking me back to my hotel . ’ |
| 29 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 30 | The object of this small heading change is to stop the pointer moving before bringing it back into the circle . |