Example sentences of "[vb past] back [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 2 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 3 | I carried on , then came back to live in the North but it just seems to have been a really cemented bond . ’ |
| 4 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 5 | Before leaving the chamber , Mungo turned back to take in the scene ; to fix it in his mind . |
| 6 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 7 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 8 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 9 | Friday and I stayed to watch the prisoners , while the captain and his men went back to fight for the ship . |
| 10 | Having eaten her lunch quickly , Tess went back to work with the harvesters in the cornfield until it was dark . |
| 11 | And really it was no joking matter : across the bridge John Chapman , nephew to a Market Place shoemaker , went back to work in the shop too soon after the flood , caught a chill in the process , and died in the April , aged just twenty-one . |
| 12 | I went back to look through the view-panel , an felt my stomach go into zerograv . |
| 13 | The brown egg struck the wall behind Delaney 's head with a clang and whirled back to bounce on the top of the radio bench . |
| 14 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 15 | He leaned back to tap on the glass partition and then slid it open . |
| 16 | She folded her arms , and leaned back to rest against the work surface behind her . |
| 17 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |