Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | And you get twenty back do n't you , when you sell them back to the bank or whoever ? |
| 3 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 4 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 5 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 6 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 7 | He then led them back to the safety of the Allied trenches . |
| 8 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 9 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 10 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 11 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I really ought to give them to her personally , or send them back to the bank . |
| 15 | Still , Melissa was pleasant enough and said Hello and asked if I minded driving them back to the village . |
| 16 | Send him back to the Army . |
| 17 | Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure . |
| 18 | What , Mo asked , would tempt her back to the polling booths ? |
| 19 | The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do . |
| 20 | The following week , her own doctor 's clinic referred her back to the centre because of a slight problem with her blood pressure . |
| 21 | And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night . |
| 22 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 23 | Now Henry thought about it , she seemed to enter rooms which he was in carefully , keeping her back to the wall ; if he got close to her , she nearly always moved away quickly , usually making sure their bodies did not touch . |
| 24 | She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach . |
| 25 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 26 | This time he traced it back to the servant in the bedroom — he blocked out or refused to remember her name — a cold witch , he decided , a witch who would find no satiation in this world , maybe even a spirit brought back to test and ruin those who had intercourse with her . |
| 27 | Next Thursday 's club E.G.M will debate a plan for chairman Wallace Mercer to buy the ground and lease it back to the club . |
| 28 | Hearts chairman , Wallace Mercer has abandoned his proposal to buy the club 's ground at Tynecastle and lease it back to the club . |
| 29 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 30 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |