Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] her back " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would 've dropped her back . |
| 2 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 3 | The glance of astonishment Feargal gave her should have made her back off , but she was so thoroughly fed up with this family , with being the meat in the sandwich of everyone 's feud , that she ignored him . |
| 4 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 5 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
| 6 | He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that . |
| 7 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 8 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But surely if there was difficulty and she had relations , they would have taken her back . ’ |
| 10 | Even so , we would have taken her back , like the lost lamb that went astray , but she spurned our forgiveness . |
| 11 | On one occasion she even invited me to her home in Chelsea , but I did n't accept as I knew if I did I would only have to ask her back to my place in Whitechapel . |
| 12 | But , as she looked up into his dark eyes that gave nothing away , and battled furiously against the pride that would have held her back from pressing her question , suddenly the sun came out . |
| 13 | But if you did manage to get her back with her husband again , I 'm sure she 'd end up forever suspicious , bitter and soured . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't want to get her back , disturbing her when there was nothing she could do . ’ |