Example sentences of "[to-vb] it back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Some of this can be achieved through training , with time to relate it back to the working environment . ’
4 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 .
5 He untied the stern line , kneeling to lead it back round a pile to the cockpit .
6 Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent .
7 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 .
8 You had to sell it back to the council .
9 They used to at one , when it was first brought out , you had to sell it back within a number of years .
10 Methodically he straightened the collection of papers to fit it back into the pocket , and then opened the wallet and inspected its contents .
11 But MRS HARRIS was allowed to buy it back with a mortgage of £75,000 , its value at the time .
12 A decade ago , NEC Corp surged past Motorola Inc and Texas Instruments Inc to become the world 's largest chipmaker , and Japan has held the title ever since — until 1991 , when according to Dataquest , Intel Corp grew 26% to win it back for the US .
13 Twelve years after the Republicans moved into the White House and 13 months after the Arkansas governor launched his long-shot bid to win it back for the Democrats , the man on the defensive was Mr Bush .
14 Such behaviour is essential when you are training your dog to run free outside as you will want to put it back on the leash at the end of the period of exercise .
15 So when the jacket of Elleke Bohemer 's book An Immaculate Figure ( Bloomsbury £15.99 ) claims it is ‘ a compelling and beautifully told parable about Africa , whiteness and beauty ’ the reader 's first reaction is to put it back on the shelf and move quickly on .
16 ‘ I 'd like to put it back into the auction for next week , ’ said the lady .
17 On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest .
18 Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that .
19 Mum 's got to give it back to the man .
20 Mum when you have to give it back to the man ?
21 The obvious answer is to draw it back to the side away from the corner , but this can create an unbalanced appearance .
22 He 'd tried to study it back in the Store .
23 Everyone , including Jake Endo , thought that now was surely was the time to turn it back into a sonnet .
24 It did n't operate from the bank , and it 's the intention of the council to turn it back into a water-based boat hiring business so there will be nothing along the bank at all .
25 And Kalchu was satisfied and picked up the quivering body to carry it back to the fireside .
26 There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home .
27 I expect I 'll soon work out how to drive it back to the quarry , and we can pick them all up .
28 Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental .
29 So think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what
30 Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
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