Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 2 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 3 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 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 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 6 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 7 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 8 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 9 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 10 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 11 | Having brought them into being with your eyes , you tried to force them back in again before they writhed and proliferated everywhere . |
| 12 | I tried to force her back to bed , but her fever made her surprisingly strong . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1984 his friend of many years , Liz Taylor , tried to get him back in front of the cameras and to conquer his alcoholism . |
| 15 | Lee tried to get it back off him . |
| 16 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 17 | I promised to have you back by now . |
| 18 | Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) . |
| 19 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Kenna — full of hope — tried to bring him back to life by applying the magic wild herb known as moly , but the moment the juice touched the body it was turned into a snowdrop . ’ |
| 22 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 23 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 24 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 25 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 26 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 27 | The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet . |
| 28 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 29 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 30 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |