Example sentences of "[verb] back [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we floated out on to the porch to admire the lawns and burnished trees , before driving back to relieve pent-up Kodiak of his anxiety . |
| 2 | She dabs a little powder on top , and stands back to admire the effect . |
| 3 | It had a plain glazed back to illuminate the upper deck at night and the lamps were removed from the hoops . |
| 4 | I was just walking back to go and he 'd got a |
| 5 | Then he let go and the calf sank back to sleep . |
| 6 | The dog looks back to see where the owner is , panics at being unable to see him and comes running back . |
| 7 | He kissed her mouth , possessively , then drew back to mouth his answer across her lips . |
| 8 | Deep and powerful , driving and urgent , the wave lifted her , carried her forward , drew back to gather force , then surged forward again , higher . |
| 9 | The people drew back to let him pass . |
| 10 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 11 | She drew back to look at me , startled . |
| 12 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 13 | Jake drew back to look at her . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 15 | You 've come back to lead them . ’ |
| 16 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 17 | She is asking you to leave her , and not come back to see her . ’ |
| 18 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 19 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 20 | ‘ My husband died in a plane crash last year , so we 've come back to live in England . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But , ’ she says , ‘ I 've come back to live theatre with a vengeance . |
| 22 | In fact it was his identical twin , whom nobody knew about , and who had come back to tidy up his brother 's affairs . |
| 23 | Next spring , a messenger from the hospital told me that two of those men had come back to say ‘ Thank you ’ and take Deputy Superintendent Dr Lloyd out to lunch to celebrate . |
| 24 | Waking in our bed one morning , we 'll hear a chorus of trills and cheeps ; fun has come back to cluster in the branches of the tree outside our window . |
| 25 | In fact , liberal or not , she has come back to work for the ANC , though her exact capacity is not made clear . |
| 26 | We met a number of young field-workers and others who had recently come back to work in Lewis and Harris , and were most impressed by their ability and devotion . |
| 27 | But most of them had come back to work reasonably cap-in-hand , preferring to be half-starved on half-pay than to starve altogether on none . |
| 28 | You have n't come back to work too soon , have you ? ’ |
| 29 | He had come back to find his church safe but Godric gone . |
| 30 | Porterfield said : ‘ We watched him in action against Barcelona and he has come back to train with us again . |