Example sentences of "they [verb] me back " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | Bit my lip — did n't want them dragging me back in there for a patient . |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I have made twelve tapes for the CBC and they want me back … why could n't some of this have happened ten years ago ? |
| 5 | When they phoned me back I told them I was ill , made profuse apologies and asked if one of the other celebrities could open the helpline . |
| 6 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 7 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 8 | But I did not perk up , so they carted me back indoors and called the doctor once more . |
| 9 | ‘ I told the people around me that I wanted to quit , so they flew me back home to see a doctor . |
| 10 | Two days later they called me back and said that I could n't go back to Jamaica , but offered me a place in the group going to Thailand , which was leaving in February . |
| 11 | Mind you they brought me back . |
| 12 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 13 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |
| 14 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 15 | They took me back to London that night , and looked after me carefully all the next day , so that , although my arm was still aching , and I felt very weak , I was fit enough for the planned journey on Wednesday . |
| 16 | They took me back to Edinburgh , and people in the streets screamed at me : ‘ Kill the woman ! |
| 17 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 18 | got better they sent me back . |
| 19 | so they 're like sending me a list , well they sent me back a half list |
| 20 | The day they gave me back my hand |
| 21 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |
| 22 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 23 | With more shrieks , they pushed me back towards Gharr and Mala , who were laughing boisterously . |
| 24 | So , then th er asked them to ring me back . |