Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 2 | Coleraine hit back early in the second half with a splendid strike from Cook . |
| 3 | Philip stepped back quickly into the cover of the trees . |
| 4 | And Durbeyfield lay back comfortably on the grass . |
| 5 | Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat . |
| 6 | So it seems that the weakening of the trade winds allowed more surface water normally piled up in the western Pacific to flow back eastwards across the ocean . |
| 7 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 8 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 9 | Eleanor Thorne lay back again on the high pillows , and her nut-brown face was petulant . |
| 10 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 11 | Alice stood back away from the trapdoor up into the attic so that she was out of Philip 's sight , and took off her sweat shirt . |