Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal manager George Graham 's response to his side 's march back to the top was as predictable as the result . |
| 2 | Quiss said , and dumped the scullion 's head back into the now half-full bucket . |
| 3 | Shortly , he accompanied the dead child 's uncle back into the kitchen . |
| 4 | ‘ You will carry the General 's body back to the command vehicle , ’ he ordered . |
| 5 | He would lie here , no one knew for how long , until the tribe had painstakingly amassed the financial and ritual wherewithal necessary to launch a dead king 's soul back to the stars . |
| 6 | Any comment which seemed to be irrelevant was accepted seriously and an appropriate question would bring the speaker 's thoughts back to the matter under discussion . |
| 7 | Sticking her head out of the door , she summoned a nurse and got her to take the young man 's parents back to the interview-room and give them a cup of tea . |
| 8 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 9 | She then replaced the bottle on the shelf above the sink , taking care to put her mother 's bottle back in the cupboard . |