Example sentences of "take back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 2 | They see it working and often they are given a print out of the results at the end of a spectrum or something like that that they can take back to the school with them and analyze . |
| 3 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 4 | What the government gave away with one hand , however , it took back with the other . |
| 5 | If the mean levels for one hour and two hours are plotted , then a line intersecting the two points can be taken back to the y-axis ( Fig 7 ) and the hourly uptake calculated from the slope , thus : |
| 6 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 7 | ( The user presses Y or N. If N , the user is taken back to the menu . ) |
| 8 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 9 | Despite the almost empty room , Isabel had been taken back to the gallery by a circuitous route through little-known passages deep inside the castle walls . |
| 10 | The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on . |
| 11 | She came back to collect her when she was three but after finding out the toddler was being beaten and burnt , social workers intervened and Natasha was taken back to the safety of the orphanage . |
| 12 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 13 | He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition . |
| 14 | Gouache paintings completed on site become records of intense sessions of work , capable of being taken back to the studio to exist in their own right or to become resources of ideas for larger-scale studio canvases . |
| 15 | It was at this juncture that Molly was distracted by Jacqueline , who had to be taken back to the house into one of the lavatories sluiced only by a bucket of old chlorinated pool water . |
| 16 | Now the dialysis machine is about to be taken back to the hospital and Richard is hoping for a healthy future . |
| 17 | The machine will then lock and has to be taken back to the post office for further payment . |
| 18 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 19 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 20 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
| 21 | She was taken back into the house and made to fill a bath and to get into it . |
| 22 | After the children were driven away , Mrs B was taken back into the house and told the police had a warrant to search it . |
| 23 | ‘ The boat nousts have been taken back by the sea about six or eight feet , ’ she said , and stones had been piled on top of them . |
| 24 | Shelter said : ‘ We were taken back by the response . |
| 25 | Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial . |
| 26 | I take back to the hotel a plan of the set with John 's pencilled movements on it and rewrite the scene that night . |
| 27 | ‘ And you patrol the bank every day and what you find you take back to the Man ? ’ |
| 28 | Perfect to play on the hand-crafted Daly billard table , which will mop up the spare £47,000 you could n't be bothered to take back to the bank . |
| 29 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |