Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 3 | The moment you see a striped juggling club you think back to the circus . |
| 4 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 5 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 6 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 7 | It is well established that objects are perceived to have the same colour despite quite extensive variations in the colour of the light with which they are illuminated and hence the wavelength of the light they reflect back to the retina . |
| 8 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 9 | In a kind of panic I walked back to the carob and along the east side of the gulley to the top of the cliff that overlooked the private beach . |
| 10 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 11 | With a heavy sigh she lay back on the pile of beach cushions , closing her eyes against the early-morning sun , already climbing high in the sky . |
| 12 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 13 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 14 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 15 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 16 | After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel . |
| 17 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 18 | The next moment I jumped back against the wall , trembling with fear and horror . |
| 19 | From the moment you sit back in the Orion 's roomy interior , you 'll know how it feels to drive a classic car . |
| 20 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 21 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 22 | They took a boat trip to see the seals , and in the evening they went back to the camp and lit a picnic-type disposable barbecue and ate burgers and sausages and fresh crunchy salad they had bought in Blakeney . |
| 23 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 24 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 25 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 26 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 27 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 28 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 29 | ‘ At midnight I crawled back to the village on my stomach . |
| 30 | ‘ Father , the night you stay back from the club will be the night the shops are on fire , both of them . ’ |