Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] back to the " in BNC.

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1 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
2 She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room .
3 ‘ Cheers , lads , ’ Duncan said as we turned and went back to the pillar .
4 Now , they turned and walked back to the cottage , with the wind behind them .
5 As she disappeared from view , Barney turned and walked back to the car .
6 He turned and walked back to the desk .
7 She turned and ran back to the house before he could say anything else .
8 He had both a yellow and a red stain across his chest and he was turning around with his arms out appealing for a referee , then he turned and trudged back to the farmhouse for his time penalty .
9 He turned and headed back to the Montego , pausing as he opened the door .
10 This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab .
11 Keith nodded and darted back to the house and Jinny walked on down the path , trying to ignore Rachel , who was in the doorway .
12 Before he received any answer , the arresting policeman shut the door , warned him that he would be arrested for obstruction if he persisted and went back to the driver 's seat .
13 Riley snarled and went back to the newsroom .
14 She blushed and went back to the chair in which old Eddy had died .
15 Who would mark that fly watching you , transmitting what it saw and heard back to the eye-screen from anywhere within a compass of twenty kilometres ?
16 A youth in Union Jack shorts and nothing else whistled approvingly and they laughed and sauntered back to the car .
17 During the night Ben suddenly woke up and remembering her , he hurriedly dressed and ran back to the wharf and opened the hatch .
18 Somehow I got back up and completed the climb — but by the time I hobbled and shuffled back to the sacks , the sun was already casting its final , blood red spotlight on Cloggy 's slabs and buttresses .
19 The man opened his mouth to comment , shrugged and went back to the cab .
20 ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse .
21 She nodded dismissively at Joe , who glared and stamped back to the pigs , and then she came into the milking house and leaned against the far wall , looking across at Jinny .
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