Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 3 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 4 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 5 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 6 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 7 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 8 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
| 9 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 10 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 11 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 12 | ‘ I traced ye back tae the dairy — ye know , the place ye worked when ye were a boy . ’ |
| 13 | The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment . |
| 14 | As I poked them back in the compost moved , and I retreated hurriedly . |
| 15 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 16 | I threw myself back on the bed with a laugh . |
| 17 | I threw myself back through the door , falling to the ground . |
| 18 | Then someone pulled her back into the plane and the door closed . |
| 19 | I brought him back to the matter in hand . |
| 20 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ At the last moment she tried to back out but I dragged her back by the elbow . |
| 27 | As I dragged myself back to the Duck and Forceps , I suddenly felt a strange empathy with the great Mike Channon . |
| 28 | ‘ No buts , ’ said the man and without warning gave Charlie a shove in the chest which propelled him back into the street . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |