Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 4 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 5 | A word of caution at this point : do not list specific skills that you do not have unless you feel that the lack of these skills is holding you back in a particular area . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt , tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail . |
| 8 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 11 | Leaning her back in a façade of patience against an ancient painted wall . |