Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 8 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The next moment I jumped back against the wall , trembling with fear and horror . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 15 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 16 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 19 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 20 | ‘ At midnight I crawled back to the village on my stomach . |
| 21 | Every day we went back to the garage ; and every day that car of ours was in sorrier shape . |
| 22 | That night we went back to the house . |
| 23 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got one thing to tell you and one favour to ask of you , ’ Ian said to Julia the minute they got back to the Amy Roy . |
| 25 | Finally in despair they turned back for the fleet , but on approaching this , the ships all scattered under the impression that an enemy torpedo raid was coming in . |
| 26 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 27 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 28 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 29 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 30 | With a little grimace she walked back towards the bed , and then leaned against one of the posts . |