Example sentences of "they [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , brokers acting as price stabilisers arrange what is known as a ‘ green shoe ’ — an agreement which allows them to go back , cap in hand , to the issuing company and simply ask for more new shares to cover their position . |
| 2 | To encourage them to go back , the US and Britain left behind a rapid-strike force , to be stationed just inside the Turkish border , which would sock it to Saddam if he dared resume anti-Kurd aggression . |
| 3 | So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something . |
| 4 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 5 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 6 | A couple of tins of peas left out , try and find a space for them to go back in again . |
| 7 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 8 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 9 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 10 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 11 | Keep flashing me to say that I 've got my headlights on so I , when I , I give them flash back to say no I have n't . |
| 12 | Family historians very soon become aware of the rather bizarre and uncanny way in which people 's lives can bring them circling back to places which have strong connexions with their own forgotten ancestry . |
| 13 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 14 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 15 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 16 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 17 | In any case , the Dwarfs saw in the savage human tribes potential allies to help them fight the Orcs and , ultimately , to help them win back the lost Dwarf fortresses . |
| 18 | ‘ The ball is now in Scotland , we wait for them to come back , ’ he said . |
| 19 | My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall . |
| 20 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 21 | ‘ I told them to come back in September . ’ |
| 22 | I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when |
| 23 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 24 | If you want them to come back , I said . |
| 25 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 26 | It 's quite exciting waiting for them to come back . |
| 27 | For Zoe 's sake it might be necessary for them to come back . |
| 28 | Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market . |
| 29 | Tell them to pull back ! |
| 30 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |