Example sentences of "[to-vb] they back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |