Example sentences of "it back and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning a violent red , he snatched it back and rubbed it clumsily against his trouser leg . |
| 2 | ‘ We have sent it back and asked for a translation . ’ |
| 3 | Aelis snatched it back and blew the ashes from it for him , blinking back tears . |
| 4 | Later he put out some work to one of the five , but the journeymen returned , demanded he take it back and levied a charge of 3 guineas ( £3.15 ) for their loss of time in attending to " this act of justice " . |
| 5 | I should put it back and cover it up . |
| 6 | Can we wind it back and listen to it ? |
| 7 | He paced it back and says to me , ‘ Where is the ball ? ’ |
| 8 | I can then print it out or call it back and speak it sentence by sentence . |
| 9 | Then I brought it back and went out again with a blank canvas and that also is finished . |
| 10 | As far as I 'm concerned personally , I think it 's very , very weak , take it back and re-draft it and allow the employees to be in the control of their own destiny , because after a national fraud and a scandal that 's taken place that we could never trust any employer to carry out a scheme . |
| 11 | Well ca n't you take it back and get it re-dated |
| 12 | A bit of judicious trimming will keep it flowering generously all summer : a careful haircut for the lower half of the plant will hold back the flowers while the top half is in bloom , then when that has finished cut it back and let the lower half flower . |
| 13 | He handed it back and said : |
| 14 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 15 | oh , oh dear oh She said that one , one lady did a lot of recording and then played it back and listened to herself and did n't like her own voice so she wiped it all off and handed it in . |
| 16 | As the neck of the pigeon clears the neck of the suit , I grab it , double it back and pinch the bend as hard as I can — remembering you have to be cruel to be kind — scratching my own neck quite badly in the process . |
| 17 | So , in the end rather than send it back and ask for |
| 18 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 19 | The design is created by wrapping a weft thread around four ( or sometimes more ) warp strands and then drawing it back and wrapping it around two , a technique of " looped " weaving not dissimilar to the way fishermen make their nets . |
| 20 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 21 | you do n't you 're not doing several operations and putting some in memory and bringing it back and giving yourself lots of chances of making mistakes . |
| 22 | But you can take it back and say I want my money ? |
| 23 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 24 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
| 25 | and then you have to start paying it back and paying the interest you know . |
| 26 | shall we take it back and complain ? |
| 27 | If you already own an Action Replay cart , David , we 'll always take it back and swap it for summit or other . |
| 28 | ‘ Within a second , you can have it back and carry on taping . ’ |
| 29 | Kingsley Black on the counter attack Rozario slipped I think fortunate to get it back and finds Black in a good position . |
| 30 | I 'll take it back and find you some that is , sir . |