Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 2 | It did not occur to her to strip her bed down and change the sheets , or even to pull them back to see if there were any more where that one came from . |
| 3 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 4 | The long aisles of trees threw Twoflower 's voice from side to side and eventually tossed it back to him , unheeded . |
| 5 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 6 | As you breathe out you will trap some of this air in this mask and slowly breathe it back in . |
| 7 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 8 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 9 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 10 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 11 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 12 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 13 | After a few minutes , he raised her to her feet , and gently pushed her back on the bed . |
| 14 | Then she stirred , sighing , and gently pushed him back . |
| 15 | Okay , we do n't , but we do get them all tangled up by other people taking them away , and not bringing them back , and then we do n't know what we 've got , you know . |
| 16 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 17 | and just brought me back again , which is fine . |
| 18 | We bought it off the city , well Michelin bought it off the city council and they gazumped us and erm but we , we have tables and chairs onto the dance floor on other nights and just pull them back when it 's clear |
| 19 | And just bring it back with a bit of water in it please . |
| 20 | But other young men go off and capture the fleeing Little creature , and soon bring it back , unharmed , to the boy . |
| 21 | Frightened that it was a gas pocket , he fumbled with his mask , and finally got it back on . |
| 22 | Her tact always and ever gave him back his freedom . |
| 23 | Artemis sat him well , and quickly brought him back under control . |
| 24 | The hot cinder falling from the grate jerked Fred from his thoughts and he licked his fingers and quickly tossed it back on to the fire . |
| 25 | ‘ Good idea , ’ Dad replied with a twinkle in his eye : he knew why they were there because he went out and fetched them in and later took them back himself . |
| 26 | My skin was brown and my hair streaked with nature 's own blond from the salt and sun : my very bones seemed to have absorbed the heat and now gave it back in the form of a glowing sense of confidence and well-being . |
| 27 | Henry gave him a book and now wants it back but the Abbe Gerard is dead , probably also murdered . |
| 28 | Whatever the pragmatics of the decision , however , a closer look at the New Testament and the justification which the early Christians chose to give for abandoning circumcision reveals much about the ritual and ironically brings us back full circle to the notion of gendered blood and the whole culture-nature : male-female scenario . |
| 29 | When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base . |
| 30 | And Jonathan lets the water out , and then fills it back up again . |