Example sentences of "them back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 2 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 3 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 4 | But if we could grasp some of these small particular uses we might be able to follow them back to the main river . |
| 5 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 6 | Each pupil had to detail a movement in front of the squad pretending to be a drill sergeant and my detail was to get my squad from the stand easy position , slope arms and march them some 50 yards , then bring them back to the original position order arms and stand at ease . |
| 7 | Any new development of another Left party could only be an attempt " to reach for the Leftward workers and draw them back to the basic Labour line " . |
| 8 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 9 | Maybe that 'll bring them back on the next plane . ’ |
| 10 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 11 | They can be observed flitting across the pit as they attempt to swim , with the parent picking them up and spitting them back into the quivering mass . |
| 12 | But now the Magpies are on the march again , nine years after Keegan guided them back into the top flight before sensationally swapping fog on the Tyne for the sunshine of Spain . |
| 13 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
| 14 | She ran a shaking hand over the wispy tendrils , smoothing them back into the neat knot gathered at the nape of her neck , but without the aid of a comb or mirror it was impossible to return her hair to its usual immaculate style . |
| 15 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 16 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 17 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 18 | In this case the simplest solution is to copy them back from the original installation disks — see Copying QBasic . |
| 19 | ‘ I ‘ discovered ’ them back in the mid-'70s , playing in a club called Cinderella 2 . |
| 20 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |
| 21 | The moment we put them back in the open spaces where they belong , in the social life they intuitively understand , horses use not only their innate behaviour but also their intelligent adaptability to its fullest . |
| 22 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |