Example sentences of "then [verb] it back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 2 | Simple — I take the dish over to the sink and wash it , then bring it back to the table . |
| 3 | Slide it out onto a plate , then invert it back into the pan and cook the other side for about 5 minutes . |
| 4 | Maxwell examined the letter in silence , let the Consul General read it and then put it back into the Captain 's open hand . |
| 5 | Oswald has been chairman of the Darlington Brown Trout Angling Association for 38 years , and jokes : ‘ On the one hand I catch a fish then put it back into the water . |
| 6 | Countries such as Tanzania , Kenya , Zaire and Uganda have been badly hit , and governments have not helped by confiscating ivory and then selling it back into the market . |
| 7 | Doyle checked his forty-five magnum , then slotted it back into the holster on his back belt . |
| 8 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 9 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 10 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |
| 11 | She picks up this blue skirt and holds it against her legs and then puts it back on the rail . |
| 12 | He toyed with the envelope for a couple of seconds , then thrust it back to the bottom of the pile . |
| 13 | I picked a fish-louse from it as it lay on the unhooking mat , dabbed a bit of waterproof ointment on a small wound on its flank , then slipped it back into the water . |
| 14 | They are all filter-feeders , drawing water in through one opening , passing it through a bag with slits in its wall , and then discharging it back into the sea through the other tube . |
| 15 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 16 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 17 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the intervention scheme is a uniquely silly way of buying a first-class article , storing it for months on end , and then dumping it back on the market as a third-class article ? |
| 18 | She gave it a brief glance , then pushed it back across the desk . |