Example sentences of "[v-ing] them back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ The Celts did n't march , ’ Nigel said , dismissing them back into the bushes .
15 Servants came running to take their horses , leading them back to the stables .
16 For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share .
17 But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash .
18 ‘ We came here the Saturday before last and won in the League , now we 're pleased to be taking them back to the Bridge this time .
19 There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around .
20 The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house .
21 The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used .
22 The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland .
23 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 .
24 Yeah , so erm cos then I had the argument about putting them back in the box .
25 They can be observed flitting across the pit as they attempt to swim , with the parent picking them up and spitting them back into the quivering mass .
26 Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water .
27 You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date .
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