Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 2 | But er she does want to pay it back , she does want to pay it back , and er well she wants to pay it back , erm , if you could start it this time next year she 'd be er she would be grateful for that . |
| 3 | She 'd invited him back home at that time . |
| 4 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 5 | When she came to put them back , they were both put back upside down . |
| 6 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 7 | Then she had to hold him back from charging down to challenge Hector 's fledgeling authority at once . |
| 8 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |
| 9 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 10 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |
| 11 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 12 | And she had teased him back . |
| 13 | She had expected him back before now . |
| 14 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 15 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 16 | And the irony was that he had been shocked when she had handed him back his ring . |
| 17 | And last night TUC president Alan Tuffin said : ‘ I 'm glad she 's sent it back . |
| 18 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 19 | The woman thinks we were buying them , but she 's taken them back and it 's all sorted out . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , I do n't believe that she 's handed it back yet . ’ |