Example sentences of "take [pers pn] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
| 2 | Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party . |
| 3 | Clicking on OK takes you back to the current document , leaving COUNT in its original empty state . |
| 4 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
| 5 | And shift F seven takes you back through the document one sentence at a time . |
| 6 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 7 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 8 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 9 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 10 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 11 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 12 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 13 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 14 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 15 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 16 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 17 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 18 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 19 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 20 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 21 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 22 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 23 | I 've committed myself to writing some notes on it in cooperation with you so that we can take them back to the group next week to discuss with the others . |
| 24 | The Scots , their mission completed , packed coffers and chests and prepared to leave , intending to go under safe conduct to Yarmouth where their ships would take them back to the Port of Leith in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | I 'll just take them back to the stall then . |
| 26 | ah , well better take them back after a while then |
| 27 | ‘ A fast car will take me back for a drink with the cast afterwards , but if they have n't got it right yet , they never will . ’ |
| 28 | Ca n't you just take me back to the life your friends stole me from ? ’ |
| 29 | He stopped and said he would take me back to the Hall . |
| 30 | I 'm not telling you where I am ; you 'll only tell Angus and he 'll tell the police and they 'll take me back to the fucking hospital . ’ |