to accept someone again after they have left a relationship, job etc and want to return to it
to admit that something you said to or about someone was wrong
to remind someone of something in the past
to take something that you have bought back to the shops because it is broken or not suitable
After they were taken back, their food was restricted.
Below are the best ones to take back to your desk.
But he changed his mind after being driven off by cops and asked to be taken back home.
Chancellor is giving with one hand and taking back with the other.
Everything is locked up and the strange young men who tidy up the trolleys have been taken back to their homes.
I am afraid we are going to be taken back to prison again.
I didn’t mean what I said – I take it back.
I feel that these people are being taken back to square one.
I think if you take back control, you do a great deal to neutralise anti-immigrant feeling generally.
I'll give you a line to take back.
If you don’t like the scarf, I can take it back.
It emerged last night that she is torn about whether to take back the love rat.
It is a particularly good route for those who wish to purchase some good, though not particularly expensive or prestigious, wines to take back home.
It may take two or three years but they think they can take back the whole country.
She had an affair, but then he took her back.
She is then taken back into hospital after a new growth is found on her kidney.
Should he be taken back, especially after such apparent lack of remorse?
They say that the large offices they had laboriously acquired in a war of attrition against civil servants have been taken back by them again.
They want evidence that we really have taken back control... over the economy, human rights laws and immigration.
This is not about trying to take back control of the Conservative Party.
This song always takes me back to my childhood.
We must not stop campaigning until we cross the line and take back control of our country.
We were so really taken back by it.
Why give with one hand and take back with the other?
You can't take back a former one in Persia but you can pass another one to balance it off.
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