Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 2 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 3 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 4 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 5 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 6 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 7 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 8 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 9 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 10 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 11 | Some of this can be achieved through training , with time to relate it back to the working environment . ’ |
| 12 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 13 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 14 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 15 | In this case , the Bank buys bills but agrees to sell them back to the market at an agreed price some time in the future . |
| 16 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 17 | About to lead them back towards the stables , he lowered his voice and said to Luke , ‘ Did you get it ? ’ |
| 18 | Reaching for his case , Eddie produced an iron to replace and smarten up dog eared lables , using it to smooth them back onto the sample . |
| 19 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 20 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 21 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 22 | Total panic clenching her insides , her mind squirrelling uselessly , she allowed Leo to urge her back towards the shop . |
| 23 | He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit . |
| 24 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
| 25 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
| 26 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 27 | They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years . |
| 28 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 29 | Everything conspires to whisk you back into the past , including the statue of a fierce bearded mercenary leaning on his shield and grasping his pike firmly as though challenging you to try to take it from him . |
| 30 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |