Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 2 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 3 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 4 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 5 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 6 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 7 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 8 | Got me back into the swing of things . |
| 9 | Yeah , well I 've still got the other two but I do n't know whether Brian and Pauline are going to want them back , I mean they 've just , I 've had them back for a craft fair . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 11 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 12 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 13 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 14 | She 'd have had him back to the manufacturers for radical restructuring . |
| 15 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 16 | HUSBAND and wife team , Beryl and David Davies , who four years ago sold 80pc of their Camarthen Water Company , have bought it back with the help of a consortium . |
| 17 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 18 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 19 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Your mam 's invited me back to the house . ’ |
| 21 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 22 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 23 | It had dragged him back to the stairwell , had gutted and fed from him to regain its strength . |
| 24 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 25 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 26 | Oh it 's tied up a somebody 's tied it back with a piece of string . |
| 27 | The last two singles , ‘ Dragging Me Down ’ and ‘ Two Worlds Collide ’ , and new one ‘ Generations ’ have pulled them back from the margins that the rambling excesses of ‘ The Beast Inside ’ threatened to confine them to . |
| 28 | The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough . |
| 29 | ‘ But the affair went wrong — and that 's what has brought you back across the Tasman . |
| 30 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |