Example sentences of "by [v-ing] they back " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 3 | And , he says , when you 're not understood by anybody , you respond by misunderstanding them back . |
| 4 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 5 | She scrambled into shorts and T-shirt , tamed her thick russet waves by tying them back in a ponytail . |