Example sentences of "and [verb] they back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 2 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 3 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 4 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 5 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 6 | A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market . |
| 7 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 8 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 9 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 10 | Funded by the Londonderry Regeneration Initiative , the task of the project team is to listen to the views of individuals and communities and relay them back to the board . |
| 11 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 12 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 13 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
| 14 | Crawford scooped up the suds in his hands and put them back in the machine — through the open door . |
| 15 | Give them needle and put them back in the stalls again . |
| 16 | But they stopped before the bridge and Sam told the groom he could go home again and meet them back in the centre of the town in two hours . |
| 17 | Always write messages down at once , and read them back to the caller so that they can be checked . |
| 18 | The Benefits Agency had told him it was taking action to identify the loans concerned and transfer them back into the system . |
| 19 | For example , if the price of BP October calls with an exercise price of 220p were only 10p then investors could buy the calls and exercise by buying the shares at 220p making a total purchase price of 230p and selling them back to the market for 237p thus making a profit of 7p per share . |
| 20 | Acting on the orders of their government , Lebanese soldiers prevented the Palestinians from entering border villages and ordered them back into the strip of " no-man 's land " separating the " security zone " from Lebanon proper . |
| 21 | Any new development of another Left party could only be an attempt " to reach for the Leftward workers and draw them back to the basic Labour line " . |
| 22 | There were some faded letters but she was n't interested in those and shoved them back in the tin , unopened . |
| 23 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |
| 24 | The computer recognises some of the words and phrases which the child types in and reflects them back at the child as open-ended questions that encourage the child to reply . |
| 25 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 26 | And he stood over him while Philip picked them all up and packed them back in the drawer . |
| 27 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 28 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 29 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 30 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |