Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I brought him back to the matter in hand . |
| 32 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 33 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
| 34 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 35 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
| 36 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 37 | So I did something you should n't really do after a bird has completed a successful free flight : I put her back on the creance . |
| 38 | ‘ Now may I drive you back to the pub ? ’ he said casually , as they emerged into the open air , and found the studious young man of the kiosk waiting to see his last customers out , one finger still keeping his place in a book . |
| 39 | ‘ At the last moment she tried to back out but I dragged her back by the elbow . |
| 40 | As I dragged myself back to the Duck and Forceps , I suddenly felt a strange empathy with the great Mike Channon . |
| 41 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 42 | ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street . |
| 43 | KEVIN DEARDEN saved a second-half penalty to earn Birmingham a 2–1 victory over Bolton which lifted them back to the top of the Third Division for the first time since November . |
| 44 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 45 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 46 | George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project . |
| 47 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 48 | Which brought her back to the point of her travels . |
| 49 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson has renewed his optimism about winning the championship following his team 's 3–0 win over Chelsea , which planted them back at the top , a point ahead of Manchester United who have two games in hand . |
| 50 | Which brings me back to the sermon with which I started . |
| 51 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 52 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 53 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |
| 54 | Which brings us back to the Ukraine , where Volkov was born . |
| 55 | Which brings us back to the old problem , ’ she finished on a slightly bitter note . |
| 56 | All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages . |
| 57 | The high speed turn at the bottom of the wave which brings you back up the same wave enabling you to continue your ride in . |
| 58 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 59 | And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ? |
| 60 | She got herself back to the lodging somehow . |