Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] back at the [noun sg] " 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 | Li Shai Tung stared back at the boy for a moment , then looked down , chilled by what Ben had said . |
| 8 | ’ 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 . |
| 9 | Robert looked back at the school . |
| 10 | Fran glanced back at the heap of cuttings , frowning as she sorted through the pile . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jed snapped back at the sound of Creed 's voice . |
| 13 | Quinn looked back at the President 's son . |
| 14 | Tsu Ma looked back at the body — the real body , not the lifelike GenSyn copy he had ‘ killed ’ — and understood . |
| 15 | Gurder looked back at the sky again . |
| 16 | Edouard looked back at the collection . |
| 17 | Isabel looked back at the fire , her tense muscles easing a little . |
| 18 | It reminded them of when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey turned back at the airport in 1976 over a sterling crisis . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Masklin glanced back at the label as he grabbed the sweater . |
| 22 | As the door closed behind him , Hilary gazed back at the paint chart , feeling abandoned and lost . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Carl smiled back at the air hostess . |
| 25 | DEFENDING Tory Michael Fallon hit back at the poll results last night saying there was ‘ no way at all that Labour are 12 points ahead in Darlington ’ . |
| 26 | Jimmy looked back at the plaster wall incredulously . |