Example sentences of "back [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 2 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
| 3 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 4 | It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives . |
| 5 | Jube had his feet , the other two were cradling his upper body between them , his head lolling back against their linked arms . |
| 6 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 7 | Braun and Oral-B fight back with their effective Plaque Remover |
| 8 | But the stunning curves owe more to Nineties video techniques as top girl group Bananarama bounce back with their first single as a duo . |
| 9 | The pace the pattern was set seconds later , as Oxford roared back with their first attack . |
| 10 | The Levitation It 's OK To Like are back with their third single . |
| 11 | It is an interesting question whether the sort of workers who are good at getting children back with their natural families are different from those who are good at placing children with new families . |
| 12 | After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography . |
| 13 | It is perhaps hardly surprising then that , faced with this kind of system in operation , councillors in Derbyshire and elsewhere should fight back with their own Realpolitik and hit where they think the effect will be most controversial . |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll decide if they want to accept it , ’ said Claridge , ‘ add any modifications and then come back with their own document called the Community Support Framework . |
| 15 | They found a pocket of spring/summer oscillation and camped overnight there , conscious that just yards away a biting winter was flaring and dying , the trees sprouting , then blackening again , as if the buds were tiny creatures , grasping and snatching at the light , then quickly tugging back into their wood-bark holes . |
| 16 | The bricks and other plastic toys then need to be sorted and fitted back into their appropriate containers . |
| 17 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |
| 18 | With a deft motion of surprisingly nimble fingers , he shifted the misaligned parts back into their correct placings . |
| 19 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 20 | While they all climb back into their ancient cars I take Rufus aside for a talk . |
| 21 | Individuals or small groups are carefully trained in the new methods and then put back into their usual working positions . |
| 22 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 23 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 24 | The period of time just after you have attained all your goals is something of a danger period ; this is when many dieters lapse back into their old ways . |
| 25 | People had moved back into their own homes though the camp was still in existence . |
| 26 | If the attraction was dominated by sexuality then when this flame diminishes , as it so often does , the partners fall back into their own boundaries and wonder where the magic has gone . |
| 27 | Joseph , Billy and Laban carried the sheep back into their own field , where the poor creatures lay helplessly without moving . |
| 28 | To retrieve their fate back into their own hands , they must exploit Aston Villa 's defeat at Norwich and win when they go to Carrow Road for the second East Anglian title ‘ decider ’ on April 5 . |
| 29 | And Leicester forced to go all the way back into their own half . |
| 30 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |