Example sentences of "[vb -s] we back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 11 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 14 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 15 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 16 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 17 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 18 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 19 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 20 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 21 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 22 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 23 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 24 | It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves . |
| 25 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 26 | This rightly brings us back to the subject of worship rather than evangelism . |
| 27 | This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency . |
| 28 | This comment was not entirely facetious and this brings us back to the remarks I made earlier about erm the use of Tampax and the government trying to persuade women to erm use internal sanitary protection . |
| 29 | This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts . |
| 30 | Verse 34 brings us back to the source of authority for these and all the laws in Leviticus . |