Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] it back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 2 | I wondered if the third soldier had made it back to his own lines . |
| 3 | Started by the present Baron 's father , who purchased most of the finest Old Master pictures , the present Baron has brought it back into single ownership by buying inherited paintings from his siblings . |
| 4 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 5 | Lee tried to get it back off him . |
| 6 | Routine care consists of keeping weeds and pests under control , and the tidying up of superfluous foliage immediately the frost has cut it back in order to deprive aquatic insect pests of a winter refuge . |
| 7 | What 's happening about your car , is Craig going to take it back with him ? |
| 8 | The footswitch socket is a DIN type , hence the plug is somewhat flimsy — stand on it and you could spend the rest of the gig trying to get it back into shape . |
| 9 | Tony had had a bad start , 2 over after 5 , and Jack had brought it back to 1 again . |
| 10 | When demand and supply are in stable equilibrium , if any accident should move the scale of production from its equilibrium position , there will be instantly brought into play forces tending to push it back to that position ; just as , if a stone hanging by a string is displaced from its equilibrium position , the force of gravity will at once tend to bring it back to its equilibrium position . |
| 11 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 12 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |