Example sentences of "get [pers pn] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 2 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 3 | The Doctor accuses the two schoolteachers of sabotaging the ship as a blackmail threat to get them back to England in their own time . |
| 4 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 5 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 6 | Knowing what I do now [ he says ] , I think the DIA was looking for a way to get me back to Beirut to salvage what it could from the Asmar wreck . |
| 7 | And er I was er one that was sorted out to go , but they would n't let me go because er I could n't get b they could n't get me back to work for seven o'clock on Monday morning . |
| 8 | They di they did n't want to feed those on strike , they wanted to try and get them back to work did they ? |
| 9 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 10 | You turn right when we hit the road at the end of this track to Minsmere — instead of left , as we shall , to get you back to Walberswick . |
| 11 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 12 | Owen : Well Kevin , we are trying , and we 'll be working with your parents on this , to get you back to school and up onto that list up there … see … that 's a list of those who 've returned to school . |
| 13 | Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well . |
| 14 | ‘ Then perhaps we ought to get you back to Faye 's , before either of us decides — ’ He broke off , took a ragged breath and did n't finish . |
| 15 | If I were completely sober I might just manage to get you back to Brides Haven , but I doubt it . |
| 16 | Her royal plane , she explained , could not get her back to Sandringham that early December night because of bad weather . |
| 17 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 18 | And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police ; Lenin 's Kulaks in the cattle trains , Devil 's Island , English prisons . |
| 19 | He stayed with Palace , totted up 180 league appearances and tried all he knew to get us back to Division Two . |