Example sentences of "take back [prep] the " 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 We shall take back from the richest 1 per cent .
5 Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains .
6 What the government gave away with one hand , however , it took back with the other .
7 Once again the world of the sands and holidays was left far behind as the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine and the committee members of the Literary Lionisers , together with such other Lionisers as could squeeze into the room allotted to them in police headquarters , were once again taken back over the events of last Saturday night .
8 However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night .
9 Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London .
10 Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London .
11 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 .
12 The plan of action will be written and taken to a full meeting of the governing body for its agreement or amendment ; it will then be taken back to the staff .
13 Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself .
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 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 .
16 ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot .
17 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 .
18 Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador .
19 The material was then taken back to the laboratory , where the real work was undertaken and is still going on .
20 The machine will then lock and has to be taken back to the post office for further payment .
21 He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition .
22 Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards .
23 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 .
24 I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about .
25 As soon as he heard the story , John Coffin had himself taken back to the police centre dealing with the case .
26 ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’
27 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 .
28 Amaranth and Mrs de Crespigny summoned a taxi and were taken back to the Grand .
29 Owen had him taken back to the underground room .
30 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 :
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