Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1755 serious friction had developed between England and France over their respective Far Eastern and North American colonies , and it was rapidly learned in London that the French had , though reluctantly , decided that only a major invasion of England itself could force the English to keep ships at home or bring them back from overseas . |
| 2 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 3 | And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I really ought to give them to her personally , or send them back to the bank . |
| 5 | Pamela , the maid , is constantly beating a breathless retreat up and down back stairs , or pressing her back to walls to let the gentry pass ; her ascendancy to wife is dramatized by her spacious and easy progress from room to room . |
| 6 | ‘ She said I 'd have to pay the full amount or put it back in the freezer , ’ said Mr Parker , of York . |
| 7 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
| 8 | A spokesperson will then either transition the module into a conceptually approved state or hold it back for further work before approval . |
| 9 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 10 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 11 | For nothing I do , no emergency procedure I try , frees me from wherever I 'm pinned down , or gets me back inside her . |
| 12 | The registrar may refer any matter to the judge that he thinks should properly be decided by the judge , and the judge can either dispose of the matter or refer it back to the registrar ( r 7.6(3) ) . |
| 13 | New evidence is not usually heard , but if it is material and could not reasonably have been heard by the Panel the Committee may hear it or refer it back to the Panel . |
| 14 | Depending on the obstructions you find , you could site the building exactly alongside the house , bring it forward of the building line ( if the planners will allow this — see later ) , or set it back into the garden . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet . |
| 17 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 18 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 19 | Instead of front running his customer the broker/dealer may pass the information about the customer 's position to another trader , such as a local , who makes a profit and then splits the difference with the broker/dealer , or pays him back in some other way . |
| 20 | You should remove the cichlids as soon as possible and transfer them to a separate tank which is set-up specifically for African cichlids , or take them back to the place you bought them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 23 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 25 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 26 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 27 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 28 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 29 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |