Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sold him for £100,000 to race in America and bought him back for £25,000 when he did nothing over there . |
| 2 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 3 | The first slip by Eachus was a turning point in the match , bringing Glenavon back into contention after they had fallen behind in a bright start by Bangor . |
| 4 | The first slip by Eachus was a turning point in the match , bringing Glenavon back into contention after they had fallen behind in a bright start by Bangor . |
| 5 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 6 | I , I waited until I got back into Switzerland before I said I 've been to Italy and I have n't got a scratch on the car . |
| 7 | One method is to switch the foreign currency loan back into sterling if you think that sterling will weaken significantly — more than a possibility . |
| 8 | 5 ( 3 ) PATRIOT GAMES : Retired CIA man Harrison Ford is dragged back into action when he witnesses an assassination attempt on a British royal . |
| 9 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 11 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 12 | IT WAS OBVIOUS the fountain pen was back in favour when it began turning up in advertisements for financial services , computers and instant coffee . |
| 13 | Why else would he bring you here on his first night back in Denmark when he knows it 's one of my favourite clubs ? ’ |
| 14 | She jumped back in surprise as she felt his fingers beneath hers , twined around the handle . |
| 15 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 16 | And er we had er a very fine teacher then when er I can look back in pleasure when I went to school . |
| 17 | Britain 's javelin maestro confesses he has no idea when he will be back in action as he struggles with a stubborn injury to his throwing shoulder . |
| 18 | So , thought I 'll get them all washed and put back in bedroom before he notices they 're missing . |
| 19 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 20 | She is to me and many others , the best tennis player in the world today , even if she is No 2 it wo n't be long before she is back on top where she belongs . |
| 21 | What do the friends and relatives of the crew feel back on earth as they await news ? |
| 22 | But now , get yourself away and get back on time if you want to get off early tonight . |
| 23 | ‘ Every match I am playing better and better , ’ said Stich , who revealed that marriage to German actress Jessica Stockman nine months ago helped put his career back on track after he had slumped as low as 17 in the world last year . |
| 24 | He wondered if he ought to wait , but he wanted to get back to Rochester before she came afloat . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , you can ‘ But , Daddy ’ at me all you like — it 's not going to bring you , or any of those amadans mocking the poor guard , back to life when they walk out under a ten-ton truck . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Well , they can let him go back to Spain when they wish . ’ |
| 27 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 29 | In this case , you have to go through the full manual routine as outlined above , stopping on play-pause and switching back to record-pause when you reach the desired edit-out point on the previous recording . |
| 30 | They came back to Lyneham as they left … in an RAF Hercules . |