Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 2 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 3 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |
| 4 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 5 | She left the stove , grabbed her holdall and began packing everything back into it . |
| 6 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 7 | He went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 8 | He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety . |
| 9 | They might fear you , hate you , and try to exorcise you back into the fifth dimension , but they accept you for what you are . |
| 10 | If it were not for my concern for my grandmother , I would — I would put you out of the car right now , I would let you wait beside the road until someone took pity on you and offered to drive you back to Milano . ’ |
| 11 | Clearly , if I speak from my critical parent state too often , patronising you and moralising at you , directing you as a child , and you retaliate in a parent state and attempt to direct me back as a child , we 've got a ‘ crossed transaction ’ . |
| 12 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 13 | However it can become fully charged up with ammonia , and start to leach it back into the water . |
| 14 | Anyone who buys a piece of plant and machinery and tries to sell it back to the manufacturer at 75 per cent . |
| 15 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 16 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 17 | Playing with the things I 've learned from Diebenkorn , and hoping to make it back to London next year . |
| 18 | Playing with the things I 've learned from Diebenkorn , and hoping to make it back to London next year . |
| 19 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 20 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 21 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 22 | Floor manager George Picard says : ‘ Kevin fell in love with the hills and wanted to put something back into the community , that 's all . ’ |