Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] back [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The head keeper shrugged and led them back up a passageway to a cleaner empty cell .
2 ‘ Look , I 'll go and get a couple of sandwiches and bring them back down .
3 go and get yourself a cold drink and bring it back up here .
4 There 's also a Smart CPU mode , which turns the processor speed down from 20MHz to 2.5MHz after 12 seconds of inactivity , and turns it back up when you begin to use it .
5 If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly .
6 We get the odd mis-routing , there was a chap recently , er , should , you know , where , the truth is , he was a technical sinner , not a real baddie , so I decided to stretch a point , and send him back down again to try and teach him where he went wrong .
7 She washed her carefully , passing over the thin , dry limbs with smooth , light strokes , her hand filled with moss she had soaked in balm ; combing out the sparse hair with quills and twisting it back up again into a knot .
8 And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here .
9 Yeah , you 'll , you 'll hear that actually come in , if you disconnect one of those legs , if you disconnect that blue wire on there and then cease the intercom and put it back down again you know the relay clicking you 'll hear it come in and go back out again , there you go
10 Johnson 's commentary upon this tale airs his willingness to take in everything and give it back out again : ‘ Narrations like this , however uncertain , deserve the notice of the traveller , because they are the only records of a nation that has no historians , and afford the most genuine representation of the life and character of the ancient Highlanders . ’
11 He rubbed some of the powder in his hands , sniffed it and threw it back on to the ground .
12 ‘ We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry .
13 Turning right , he hit the track leading to the cabin and followed it back up .
14 Sikes seized the boy 's collar through the window and pulled him back out into the garden .
15 But she saw , too , Roberta , who came swiftly to Faye , and seized her two arms , and pulled her back out of sight .
16 So when you take your trolley back and clip it back up the pound comes out the front again .
17 Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task .
18 The procedure of bringing the nail down and taking it back up is performed using a small platform , worked by an ancient system of ropes and pulleys and known as La Nivola , the ‘ little cloud ’ .
19 ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool .
20 Her small , incoherent moan caused him to clasp her tightly against his body for a moment , before lifting her damp figure up in his arms and carrying her back through into the bedroom .
21 And then , when he had taunted her and tempted her until she was shaking with need , with easy strength he lifted her , and put her back down so that his throbbing masculinity was nestled inside the warm and inviting hollow of her body .
22 I go down and get me paper and take it back up , we have a teasmade and we have a cup of tea and
23 and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school .
24 It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed .
25 I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack .
26 ‘ It 's a great disappointment that we dominated most of the game but let them back in after leading 2–0 .
27 She collapsed twice , but pulled herself back up angrily and went on .
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