Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] back at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
2 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
3 | When Tallis looked back at the leader he was slowly sitting up , reaching for his sword . |
4 | Janice looked back at the telly and stretched one leg out over Gavin 's lap . |
5 | The TARDIS arrived back at the hospital just as two Marines escorted Benny inside . |
6 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
7 | However , on the eve of today 's clash with Coventry at Highbury , which could result in Arsenal going top , Graham hit back at the fans who have attacked Dixon . |
8 | Li Shai Tung looked back at the pictures above the bed with new understanding . |
9 | Bjaaland looked back at the mountains . |
10 | Li Shai Tung stared back at the boy for a moment , then looked down , chilled by what Ben had said . |
11 | ’ Li Shai Tung stared back at the hologram a moment longer , then , sighing , he plucked the scented sticks from the offering bowl , and threw them aside . |
12 | Robert looked back at the school . |
13 | Fran glanced back at the heap of cuttings , frowning as she sorted through the pile . |
14 | Adam looked back at the house , at the honeysuckle that curtained the back of it in yellow and pink , at the martins , sharp-pinioned , that wheeled in and out from the eaves . |
15 | Jed snapped back at the sound of Creed 's voice . |
16 | Quinn looked back at the President 's son . |
17 | Tsu Ma looked back at the body — the real body , not the lifelike GenSyn copy he had ‘ killed ’ — and understood . |
18 | Gurder looked back at the sky again . |
19 | Edouard looked back at the collection . |
20 | Isabel looked back at the fire , her tense muscles easing a little . |
21 | It reminded them of when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey turned back at the airport in 1976 over a sterling crisis . |
22 | PAT Clinton hit back at the critics who jeered him after he retained his WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on Saturday . |
23 | Kate stared back at the files in front of her . |
24 | Unaware that the first tightening tugs on the net around her family 's attackers had begun , Chrissie Stone arrived back at the house at six that same evening , the boot of her small car loaded with supermarket supplies . |
25 | Wycliffe glanced back at the house and again saw the seated figure in the upstairs room , but now he had the impression that the figure was facing him , looking out of the side window . |
26 | Masklin glanced back at the label as he grabbed the sweater . |
27 | Lehmann looked back at the others . |
28 | As the door closed behind him , Hilary gazed back at the paint chart , feeling abandoned and lost . |
29 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
30 | Petion glanced back at the TARDIS . |