Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh it 's tied up a somebody 's tied it back with a piece of string . |
| 4 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 5 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |
| 6 | He had forced her back against a closed door , literally and metaphorically . |
| 7 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
| 8 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 9 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |