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Example sentences for "taken back"

  • There was a part of his mind which called upon him to rise up and challenge the outrageous phrase and demand that it be taken back.

  • They're sore because one of them has been given her notice, and they say they won't give a show unless she's taken back.

  • The fleur-de-lis as the finial of a sceptre and as an ornament of a crown can be taken back to the fifth century.

  • He instances cases in which shields, apparently charged with ordinaries but really strengthened with cross-pieces, can be taken back to a period long anterior to the existence of regularised armory.

  • But only a part of these men would be taken back by the companies, and what under the sun did these chiefs intend to do with the others?

  • He said: "I will not mislead you boys for one minute, not one of you will be taken back.

  • My heart bleeds when I think of those poor, hunted and heart-broken fugitives, though a most interesting family, taken back to bondage ten-fold worse than Egyptian.

  • Whom He pleaseth will He chastise, and on whom He pleaseth will He have mercy, and to Him shall ye be taken back.

  • I intend that you shall be taken back to Venice by M.

  • With this threat he went away, ordering that I should be taken back to prison.

  • After supper Therese asked her if she would like to have a sedan-chair sent for, or if she would prefer to be taken back in my carriage.

  • Let father, mother, son, and nephew be taken back to where they belong; the nina to stay behind.

  • They could not leave her alone in the wilderness, and therefore of necessity she was going with them to their town; afterwards to be taken back to the estancia--to her mother.

  • And whether they remain under your protection, or be taken back to Paraguay, 'twill be all the same as regards the senorita.

  • Life is the gift of God, and is therefore sacred, and must only be taken back by the Giver of life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another consideration; black water; come with; dark corner; good character; kept back; more importance; several parts; speaking peoples; special arrangement; taken aback; taken advantage; taken away; taken away from them; taken back; taken captive; taken down from the; taken every; taken from; taken literally; taken out; taken over; taken prisoner; taken three; taken together; when every