Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 3 | She then rejoined the others outside , and the Doctor led them back to the TARDIS . |
| 4 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 5 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 6 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 7 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 8 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 9 | He led me back into the house and up to Southgate 's chamber . |
| 10 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 11 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 12 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 13 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 14 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 15 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 16 | Sank me back into the past , |
| 17 | The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows . |
| 18 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 19 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 20 | Spare parts , says Mendoros , ‘ helped me back into the market ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I traced ye back tae the dairy — ye know , the place ye worked when ye were a boy . ’ |
| 22 | The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do . |
| 23 | The following week , her own doctor 's clinic referred her back to the centre because of a slight problem with her blood pressure . |
| 24 | Edward moved forward , moved her back towards the bed , but Hannele sidestepped , turning him around instead . |
| 25 | He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses . |
| 26 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 27 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 28 | She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach . |
| 29 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 30 | With one firm hand on her arm he solicitously helped her back into the chair . |