Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still holding her arm , he was walking with her back along the avenue , down to the sea front . |
| 2 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 3 | ‘ Wait for me back at the TARDIS . ’ |
| 4 | But when there was no retort from her granddaughter , she turned her head and looked at the young woman lying with her back against the head of the couch , her eyes closed , the muscles of her jaws showing white through the skin , and , her tone changing , she enquired , ‘ What is it , dear ? |
| 5 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 6 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 7 | Damian pulled her out and shut the door , marching with her back down the corridors , his hand hard on her wrist , and as she went with him , hurrying to match those long strides , she understood and was horrified beyond belief . |
| 8 | When she returns to Pierre and Claire , they are unwilling to believe what she claims has happened but they drive with her back to the field and Maria finds the opening in the wheat where he is lying . |
| 9 | Merlyn froze , then turned to lean with her back against the door . |
| 10 | She wears big dark glasses and insists on sitting with her back to the throng , coincidentally facing the mirror . |
| 11 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 12 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 13 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
| 14 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 15 | Fenella was standing with her back to the silver door , watching the Melanisms . |
| 16 | Anya is now standing with her back to the fireplace . |
| 17 | When I spoke to him back in the winter Jim Fleeting indicated that he was driven by fear , the fear of failure . |
| 18 | He posted the detective constable he had with him back down the path to join his colleague , armed with instructions to repel all attempts by anyone , however senior or armed with whatever authority , to go anywhere near the body unless he , Sergeant Black , personally accompanied them . |
| 19 | She cast suspicious , icy eyes at Robyn , a what-are-you-doing-here look , and continued , ‘ Now come with me back to the barn — we have a little surprise for you . ’ |
| 20 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
| 21 | She stood with her back to the wall , sheltering from the rain : a sober , respectable woman in a burgundy coat and white knitted cap . |
| 22 | Instead she stood with her back against the door . |
| 23 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 24 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
| 25 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 26 | When she 'd retrieved the ends of the rope and tied it all together , she sat with her back against the load , adjusting the carrying rope over her forehead . |
| 27 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 28 | Perhaps Hambury was about to turn into the place Biff had originally described to them back at the workhouse . |