Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 2 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 3 | To find out what sort of bottom exists in a swim just stick on a heavy leger and drag it back towards you . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 5 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 6 | Michael picked her up in his arms and held her tightly to him , murmuring endearments into her hair and stroking her back until she was spent . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 8 | ‘ Please yourself , ’ he grunted , and led her back . |
| 9 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 10 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 11 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 12 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 13 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 14 | The head keeper shrugged and led them back up a passageway to a cleaner empty cell . |
| 15 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 16 | He come in Saturday , not that he , we 've heard all that before , said that you can get give it a good wash and squeeze it back , that I ca n't put one on now , give me a ring when you 're done |
| 17 | Once you 've chosen your lights and bought the transformer and cable , all you have to do is position the lights , run the cable to them , and connect it back to the transformer terminals . |
| 18 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 19 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 20 | Although it is not mentioned in the Act , the Government intended to act as an agent of the Government of India , by using its compulsory powers to purchase the site of the India Office and sell it back to the Indian Government . |
| 21 | KRRS alleges that foreign seed companies buy seed from farmers , treat it and sell it back to them at a hefty profit . |
| 22 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 23 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 24 | I picked it up and chucked it back . |
| 25 | She laid her cheek contentedly against his chest , and hugged him back . |
| 26 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 27 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 28 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 29 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 30 | More importantly , he wanted to match exactly his accounts of meeting ‘ rough trade ’ in the street and bringing them back . |