Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] we back " in BNC.
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| 1 | cars took us back . |
| 2 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 3 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 4 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 5 | I only mentioned it because I want you to know that I realise the problems we 're facing — and that I 've got plans to put us back on our feet . |
| 6 | It took about ten minutes to chew through one slice and only two very heavy loaves lasted us back to Newlyn . |
| 7 | Their answers sent us back to the drawing board . |
| 8 | ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months . |
| 9 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |
| 10 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 11 | Weathered milestones take us back |