Example sentences of "he [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ he whispered back . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ he whispered back , with the faintest of faint smiles . |
| 4 | He whispered back , ‘ You go . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ he whispered back . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I did n't , ’ he whispered back . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope not either , Pip , ’ he whispered back . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm a Time Lord , remember ? ’ he whispered back , keen to make sure none of the others overheard him . |
| 9 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ he whispered back . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no thank you then , ’ he whispered back , ‘ I 'll walk . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course she is , ’ he whispered back . |
| 13 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 14 | As I approached the animal 's rear end he laid back his ears , whickered and began to caper around . |
| 15 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 16 | He beamed back at them . |
| 17 | He plunged back into his contemplation of the engine . |
| 18 | He plunged back into his work , forgetting about her before she was through the door . |
| 19 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 20 | Instead of driving west , towards the expressway , he doubled back , crossed the bridge again , and cut down into Baker Park . |
| 21 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 22 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 23 | He doubled back to tell Holly she had written a nice piece on Donaldson . |
| 24 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 25 | He stalked back out and came back in with two more boxes to dump down heavily with the others . |
| 26 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 27 | And he tramped back and forth to the loom . |
| 28 | Billy 's wide mouth stretched into a grin as he winked back . |
| 29 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 30 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |