Example sentences of "[vb past] back [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a thump as the lorry hit the bank , heeled over , and then bounced back on to the lane . |
| 2 | Mathers span the wheel with the heel of his hand and they bounced back on to the approach road . |
| 3 | When the first frosts came he moved back down to the village . |
| 4 | She sagged back on to the ground again . |
| 5 | But this night , after being ashore an hour or so , the raiders waded back out to the boat arm-pit deep in the rising tide . |
| 6 | I wandered back up to the station concourse . |
| 7 | Allan Scuffle ( or scuffling Allan ) gave me a frank grin and handshake , and I wandered back down to the Liffey . |
| 8 | Finally , the conversation came back around to the subject of Alina 's new job . |
| 9 | Henry went to the front hall , put the chicken and the jack on the table by the front door and trudged back out to the Passat . |
| 10 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
| 11 | Several more aircraft were set ablaze , and as they drove back on to the road without a shot having been fired against them , Stirling and Mayne were cock-a-hoop . |
| 12 | Steve flopped back on to the sofa , his legs over the arm , cradling the glass of champagne in two hands . |
| 13 | When the White House and Congress do reach a 1990 budget agreement ( no one is willing to predict when ) the spending cuts will be restored and the carriages lifted back on to the rails . |
| 14 | Marginally more in control , she sauntered back through to the kitchen and handed him the brush , carefully keeping her own fingers clear of his . |
| 15 | At a quarter to eleven she galloped back up to the attic room . |
| 16 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 17 | He climbed back up to the road and walked on . |
| 18 | Davis and I climbed back up to the road together . |
| 19 | She pushed all serious thoughts to the back of her mind and climbed back on to the helter-skelter of excitement and self-confidence induced by the undisguised admiration of Karl Gesner . |
| 20 | He wrapped this and the fat-soaked bread in sheets of clean newspaper taken from the bathroom , then climbed back on to the stool to see what else he could find . |
| 21 | With every nerve straining to turn tail and run , she 'd backed away as quietly as possible and once she was out of earshot raced back down to the beach to find the tide had turned . |
| 22 | She walked back over to the standing stones and leant her forehead against one of them . |
| 23 | I walked back over to the café . |
| 24 | Jack walked back up to the landing and put his arm around his daughter . |
| 25 | Christina joined her ten minutes later , and they both walked back up to the house , on a path overgrown with headily fragrant mimosa and low , sweeping bamboo . |
| 26 | The friar walked back up to the Poultry and knocked on the coroner 's door . |
| 27 | As she walked back on to the landing , Geoffrey came out of his room . |
| 28 | He walked back down to the green and waited out of the wind on the churchyard side . |
| 29 | He stepped back on to the deck . |
| 30 | The girl stepped back on to the terrace , laughing . |