Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 2 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 3 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 4 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 5 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 6 | Weekend reports suggest that the long-term unemployed — those out of work longer than 12 months — will benefit from a £300 million scheme aimed at bringing them back into the workforce . |
| 7 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 8 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 9 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 10 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 11 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |
| 13 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 14 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 15 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 16 | He took the unravelling length of fabric from her and expertly refolded it , depositing it back on the stall . |
| 17 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moreover , according to David Johnston , the Gloucester captain was still knocking 'em back in the tackle in Australia last summer on Scotland 's short tour . |
| 20 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 21 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
| 22 | The hunt was called off : the whippers-in and the huntsmen despatched , Benjamin ordering them back to the manor and telling them to bring down two stretchers , wine and bandages . |
| 23 | On one memorable occasion , Mac came to one of the dances and spent a lot of time with me , even escorting me back to the Waaf site afterwards , making intelligent conversation about his home in Canada and shaking hands gravely as he said goodnight — so different from the smash and grab tactics I was usually treated to when trying to bring an evening to a satisfactory close . |
| 24 | Pink and blue drifted away , leaving green to chat for a few minutes — ‘ I jest lerved those cute red heels and hose you 'rived in ’ — before escorting me back to the changing room on the floor above . |
| 25 | She ran a shaking hand over the wispy tendrils , smoothing them back into the neat knot gathered at the nape of her neck , but without the aid of a comb or mirror it was impossible to return her hair to its usual immaculate style . |
| 26 | ‘ The Celts did n't march , ’ Nigel said , dismissing them back into the bushes . |
| 27 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 28 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 29 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 30 | And I hope we 'll be seeing you back on the field soon . |