Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 2 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 3 | The postman was pedalling back towards them down the road . |
| 4 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 5 | Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening . |
| 6 | Never slam a door in temper , you may need to come back through it in the future : kick yourself instead . |
| 7 | The other point is I gave you an undertaking yesterday to come back to you on the reschedule of the programme in respect of items that have fell of the agenda during the course of the week . |
| 8 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 9 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 10 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 11 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , ’ he said , kissing her cheek as David came back towards them with the tickets . |
| 13 | Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel . |
| 14 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 15 | Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’ |
| 16 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 17 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
| 18 | Dozens of people with rucksacks glare back at them from the platform as they wait for their substandard ‘ Sprinter ’ to turn up ; wet , cold and miserable perhaps , but at least secure in the knowledge that they will eventually travel through the same scenery without parting with their life savings . |
| 19 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 21 | He carried her glass across to the mini-bar , re-filled it and walked back with it to the bed . |
| 22 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 23 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 24 | ( d ) Joan Ruddock , then chairperson of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , heard her telephone conversation being played back to her at the end of a call . |
| 25 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 26 | So could I just in conclusion say please fill in your short questionnaire thank you for your attendance and I can assure you as Chairman of the trust what you said and the question 's you 've raised this evening will be looked at in great detail and we will be reporting back to you in the near future about the proposals that we wish to make . |
| 27 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 28 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 29 | In fact everything that I am not , she thought swiftly , remembering the sickly pale face with its halo of tousled auburn curls , and the huge , startled green eyes that had stared back at her from the bathroom mirror only moments ago . |
| 30 | Late in the afternoon , Ranulf returned with Sir James and a small convoy of cavalry and , without further ado , Corbett saddled a horse and rode back with them to the castle . |