Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 2 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 3 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 4 | The lady accompanies him back to the Alps , to wait and worry as he and his partner , Hansi Kirchner , set off up the virgin North Face of Versücherin . |
| 5 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 6 | Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored , Oxford United have scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time . |
| 7 | And now it 's all panic again , and it always will be — until we mend our ways and Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) graciously allows us back into the Store as better , wiser nomes ! ’ |
| 8 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 9 | the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ? |
| 10 | That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car . |
| 11 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
| 12 | Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party . |
| 13 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 14 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
| 15 | And shift F seven takes you back through the document one sentence at a time . |
| 16 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 17 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |
| 18 | A person who is entitled to the temporary possession of a chattel and who delivers it back to the owner for a special purpose may , after that purpose is satisfied and during the existence of his temporary right , sue the owner for conversion of it ; a fortiori he can sue anyone else . |
| 19 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 20 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 21 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 22 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 23 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 24 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 25 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 28 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 29 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 30 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |