Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] back [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I bring them back down to the floor level they 'll shut up |
| 2 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |
| 3 | He was trying to pull her back down to the ground and laughing in disbelief as he did it . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Tess , ’ whispered Bob , pushing her back on to the landing and pulling the door to behind them . |
| 5 | Pushing it back on to the desk without taking her eyes from it , she said , ‘ I do n't quite see . |
| 6 | By then the working class had made it back on to the front page , if only in a supporting role . |
| 7 | He rubbed some of the powder in his hands , sniffed it and threw it back on to the ground . |
| 8 | ‘ Fräulein Hubert said , when they were getting them back on to the coach after the show , what a wonderful man he was . |
| 9 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 10 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 11 | Lie down , ’ I said and he eased himself back on to the couch . |
| 12 | ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool . |
| 13 | What brought you back down to the ground when you jumped just now ? |
| 14 | Then he eased her back on to the chaise-longue and gave her a stern look . |
| 15 | In another case , a pimp repeatedly followed a girl to her house in an attempt to force her back on to the streets . |
| 16 | Owen sent him back down to the cells to think about it . |
| 17 | The hot cinder falling from the grate jerked Fred from his thoughts and he licked his fingers and quickly tossed it back on to the fire . |
| 18 | A long chairlift took us back up to the Col de la Madeleine , with its spectacular view up to Meribel . |
| 19 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 20 | He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track . |
| 21 | I tried to get him back on to the subject . |
| 22 | Then you can either put it back on to the soil it came from or , before doing this , keep it for a day or two in a small container lined with damp paper tissue . |
| 23 | We 've put it back up to the storey but we 've . |
| 24 | She watched , as , starting at the shoulder , he wound it right down the arm and the hand , covering the fingers , then wound it back up to the shoulder again . |
| 25 | and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school . |
| 26 | An aggressive manoeuvre in wave sailing , where the sailor suddenly changes course whilst on the face to bring himself back down to the bottom of the wave . |
| 27 | The bottom turn should be sharp enough to bring you back up to the top of the wave whereupon you perform what is known as a ‘ cut-back ’ in which you use all your weight on the windward rail to violently turn the board back down the slope of the wave . |
| 28 | Harry looked into his glass as if he could see for miles and Charles nudged him back on to the subject . |