Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 2 | He kissed her wet lips , warmly , tenderly , bringing them back to life , and she was lost in her love for him and his for her and she really did n't care if they never talked again . |
| 3 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 4 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
| 5 | It 's very , it 's deceptive if you 're not working out what you 're doing and relating it back to the graph , and relating it back to physics , to an experiment you 're doing , someone 's checking the clock every second to see how much further it 's gone . |
| 6 | Shadow of what ? wrote Goldberg in the margin , cursing under his breath as his elbow dislodged the pile of typewritten sheets stacked on the desk beside the typewriter , tapping them back to neatness , wiping his brow with his sleeve , typing on . |
| 7 | It is very interesting to look at one of the more recent leaflets brought out by the government , called Helping you back to work — Information for claimants . ‘ |
| 8 | Instinctively she tried to retreat , shrinking within herself , desperately seeking that distant place where she was beyond hurt , but fitzAlan spoke again , pulling her back to awareness with terrifying ease . |
| 9 | ‘ You keep bringing everything back to money . ’ |
| 10 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 11 | Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school . |
| 12 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 13 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 14 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 15 | Richard 's taking us back to school Wednesday . |
| 16 | All that rush , rush , rush from Lil , hustling me back to base , and then what ? |
| 17 | I 'm putting her back to bed . |
| 18 | herding them back to safety , |
| 19 | But it came close , tugging her back to consciousness ; still mostly asleep , she recognized it . |
| 20 | If it already runs a back to nursing course then it will also have established a policy geared towards attracting you back to work . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , no ! ’ said Isambard , discerning his flight and plucking him back to earth . |