Example sentences of "it back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 2 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 3 | If I can get it back onto the road in one piece , I think it will survive . ’ |
| 4 | This time Donna stepped on the accelerator and the Volvo shot forward , dirt and stones spraying up behind it as she guided it back onto the road . |
| 5 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 6 | But erm bought bags of compost are n't so good cos if you use all er , stuff you 're growing you put erm it back onto the ground |
| 7 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 8 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 9 | In the morning we slipped it back under the hen , and at once it was part of the family . |
| 10 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 11 | Deep in thought , she put her fathers letter at the bottom of the box and pushed it back under the bed . |
| 12 | Now , as every year , Mary , back to the pews , bottom upended , fumbled in Mrs Ellenby 's old wooden crib and brought out her best and largest doll , smiling , pouting , celluloid , with hard eyes on a metal hinge that clattered open and shut , open and shut as the wavering child righted herself , thrust it up briefly and apologetically before the congregation and pushed it back under the blankets . |
| 13 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
| 14 | A decade ago , NEC Corp surged past Motorola Inc and Texas Instruments Inc to become the world 's largest chipmaker , and Japan has held the title ever since — until 1991 , when according to Dataquest , Intel Corp grew 26% to win it back for the US . |
| 15 | Twelve years after the Republicans moved into the White House and 13 months after the Arkansas governor launched his long-shot bid to win it back for the Democrats , the man on the defensive was Mr Bush . |
| 16 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 17 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 18 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 19 | Then , the following night , half-way through a political thriller , he became so restless that he rewound the tape and took it back to the shop ; but the shop was closed . |
| 20 | He eased it back to the site . |
| 21 | Like several other drivers , they spun almost in unison , but it was the Nissan that made it back to the pits first . |
| 22 | Taking it back to the post office herself and explaining the circumstances she met with every kind of difficulty about the redirection and was compelled to pay out of her own pocket to have it seen to . |
| 23 | Extracting this heat involves pumping water down an injection borehole drilled from the surface , circulating it through pre-existing fractures , or joints , in the rock , which have been enlarged using high-pressure liquid , and bringing it back to the surface via a second borehole . |
| 24 | Owned by Jo Rutherford , Trigo rounded up the milking herd and brought it back to the milking parlour in Devon . |
| 25 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 26 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 27 | During the day the heat at the bottom of the vast bowl was the most intense any of them had ever experienced , but the whole convoy made it back to the Delta . |
| 28 | The various crews all made it back to the base camp without difficulty , but they learned that Zirnheld had been killed . |
| 29 | Of the other ranks , it was the desert veterans who made it back to the British lines , including Reg Seekings and Ted Badger , both of whom had been attached to B Squadron . |
| 30 | That same year , the agriculture commissioner for the Common Market revealed a new solution for reducing the butter mountain : feeding it back to the cows . |