Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] 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 | She 's tried to tempt her back into the woods , but with little success . |
| 4 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some of this can be achieved through training , with time to relate it back to the working environment . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | About to lead them back towards the stables , he lowered his voice and said to Luke , ‘ Did you get it ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Total panic clenching her insides , her mind squirrelling uselessly , she allowed Leo to urge her back towards the shop . |
| 18 | He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit . |
| 19 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You had to sell it back to the council . |
| 22 | They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 27 | If you leave after less than 5 years in the scheme ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you can have a refund of your contributions , with a deduction to buy you back into the State scheme and to pay the tax you have previously not paid . |
| 28 | They might fear you , hate you , and try to exorcise you back into the fifth dimension , but they accept you for what you are . |
| 29 | I 've been sent — by those even higher up than I am — to fetch you back to the office . ’ |
| 30 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |