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run back

verb
  1. To take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to their house. · If you can wait a couple of minutes, I'll run you back.
  2. To rewind a film or cassette. · Can you run it back to the beginning, please?
  3. To revisit, repeat, or do something over. (informal) · Wait, I didn't catch what you just said. Run it back for me, please.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, back.
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Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 39 · B2

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