Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abruptly Clare said to David , ‘ Thank you for bringing me back . |
| 2 | Gently , making fun of me a little bit , bringing me back to earth . |
| 3 | Standing on the corpses they laugh and joke , holding the bodies of the babies over their heads like trophies , pitching them back and forth like footballs . ’ |
| 4 | I kept pushing needle or scissors into his hands then demanding them back peremptorily , and it caused a certain amount of panic . |
| 5 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 6 | You 're sticking them back into a |
| 7 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 8 | You add all this other information and you constantly do that throughout the 24 hour day by saying that , ‘ it 's 11 o'clock , time for your coffee ’ , ‘ it 's twelve o'clock , it 's time for lunch ’ , and constantly giving your name and bringing them back to the present . ’ |
| 9 | It was always a project which was in parallel with Queen , because we always had a positive attitude to people doing stuff outside the band , getting new experiences and bringing them back into the band . |
| 10 | it 's bringing them back |
| 11 | Then she brought both hands back to her lips and spread her arms expansively , before bringing them back together and pushing her fists forward at waist-height as she rocked on her haunches ; then the banana sign , clearer and more distinct this time , both hands finally coming together with the fingers bent , a rough but distinct letter B. |
| 12 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 13 | I hope she 's bringing them back aye . |
| 14 | When they were n't running across it , cheered on by the headmaster , they were snipping bits off it and bringing them back to school to put in jars . |
| 15 | More importantly , he wanted to match exactly his accounts of meeting ‘ rough trade ’ in the street and bringing them back . |
| 16 | He kissed her wet lips , warmly , tenderly , bringing them back to life , and she was lost in her love for him and his for her and she really did n't care if they never talked again . |
| 17 | Weekend reports suggest that the long-term unemployed — those out of work longer than 12 months — will benefit from a £300 million scheme aimed at bringing them back into the workforce . |
| 18 | I 'm bringing them back . |
| 19 | Not only that she 's bringing them back to my house , you know what I mean ? |
| 20 | Okay , we do n't , but we do get them all tangled up by other people taking them away , and not bringing them back , and then we do n't know what we 've got , you know . |
| 21 | Achievement conscious pupils may conspire with their teachers in this process of limitation too , drawing them back to safer pedagogical ground when exploration threatens to divert them from their examination destination . |
| 22 | Luke was drawing them all in , drawing them back , drawing her … |
| 23 | ‘ I told myself it was because of the play , but deep down there was something driving me back to you . ’ |
| 24 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 25 | I just roll the phrases round inside my head , smoothing them out , absorbing them back into me , until they 're gone . |
| 26 | By now the men at the window had fixed bayonets , and fell upon the invaders , driving them back temporarily until sheer weight of numbers decided the issue . |
| 27 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 28 | In waves they attacked , driving them back to stop the raising of the Stones which eagles had seen in other places . |
| 29 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 30 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |