Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 2 | The second man pushed me back against the wall . |
| 3 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 4 | ww3.pcx Which directories will be searched can be set by pressing the Search button , and then changing the Search path msdos1.pcx Having set the prompt to show the text ‘ What now Fred ? ‘ , the next command sets it back to show the current drive and directory |
| 5 | She banished the idea , and in the next moment brought it back . |
| 6 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
| 7 | Vera next door brought them back from Spain for me . |