Example sentences of "they [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are coming to destroy ! ’ they whispered back . |
| 2 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 3 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 4 | He waved his helmet in greeting at several groups of Annamese squatting in the dirt before their doors , but they gazed back at him unmoving . |
| 5 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 6 | When they got back , having discovered only two , Mary Ann had the cards out for a game of canasta . |
| 7 | Not long after they got back to Wilcox 's office , Brian Everthorpe appeared at the door . |
| 8 | Instead of Queenstown , they stayed in the Queen 's Hotel that night in Belfast , and it was lunchtime the next day before they got back to Newry . |
| 9 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 10 | Naw , he would pack it in once they got back to Pee'erheed . |
| 11 | There was no answer to that , so they got back in their cars and drove away ! |
| 12 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |
| 13 | For once , when they got back , Anna needed her . |
| 14 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 15 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 16 | It was half past one before they got back to Rose Cottage and there was no denying a brisk long country walk built up the appetite . |
| 17 | Gurder was still arguing with Topknot when they got back . |
| 18 | They spent their breaks on the window detail peering in through the glass , endlessly scheming dreary things to do when they got back inside . |
| 19 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 20 | The New Democracy conservatives , though they were alarmingly slow to tackle the budget deficit when they got back to power , did eventually do something stern , and are still resisting the temptation to relax again . |
| 21 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 22 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 23 | Suppose , when they got back , he asked her what Miss Green was up to ? |
| 24 | Suppose , when they got back , he asked her what Miss Green was up to ? |
| 25 | But when they got back , he barely spoke to them . |
| 26 | And when they got back he put on his working jacket with a sigh of relief and said , ‘ Well , that 's over . ’ |
| 27 | When they got back from Siena , the pool was three quarters empty . |
| 28 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 29 | When they got back to Basha and the small house , his father embraced him . |
| 30 | When they got back to New York , to the new apartment , she would make sure that their home was like that . |