Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 2 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 3 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |
| 4 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 5 | And yet , within the artificial world that the laboratory enables one to create , we can and must isolate the variables , and , if we are clever and lucky enough , we can discover how to fit them back into some meaningful real-life pattern . |
| 6 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 7 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 8 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 10 | Aye , I 'm trying to put it back on this rail . |
| 11 | Maxted sighed , and began to gather up his work from the floor , trying to put it back in some kind of sequence . |
| 12 | Erm if you you will not be able to put it back after that date . |
| 13 | This , diverted , now turned into a recital about every distant relative Neil Cochrane possessed , all of whom , apparently , had only one wish — to see him back in polite society again . |
| 14 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll have to ring you back on that ’ |
| 17 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 18 | Infuriated by the glint of triumph in his deep blue eyes , she managed to get herself back under some sort of control , though the rivers he 'd sent surging through her body with his kisses were far from still . |
| 19 | But she was n't , and she had to get herself back to normal . |
| 20 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 21 | But once the swelling subsides we will be pulling out all the stops to get him back into full training , and playing again in six weeks . ’ |
| 22 | It did n't take much to get him back into proper work ; the pleasant surprise was that the three weeks holiday had done him a lot of good . |
| 23 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 24 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 25 | ‘ Desmond , ’ said Margaret Seymour-Strachey , ‘ you 've got to get her back into that house as soon as possible . |
| 26 | How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ? |
| 27 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |
| 28 | I 'd like to take you back to one or two more aspects of your actual work on the railways . |
| 29 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 30 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |