Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley .
2 Luch , returning from taking Marion some soup , drifted aside out of his way , and pattered back behind him to the shieling to find out what was happening .
3 ‘ All right , ’ he said , kissing her cheek as David came back towards them with the tickets .
4 Gabriel 's voice came back at him off the sides of the barrel .
5 Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed .
6 Monteith 's deep voice came back at him from the hand set , ‘ Quiet as the grave , three seven . ’
7 Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set .
8 But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’
9 ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’
10 He carried her glass across to the mini-bar , re-filled it and walked back with it to the bed .
11 I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd .
12 I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited .
13 Late in the afternoon , Ranulf returned with Sir James and a small convoy of cavalry and , without further ado , Corbett saddled a horse and rode back with them to the castle .
14 He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife .
15 " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow .
16 I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window .
17 I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror .
18 Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face .
19 Her eyes stared back at her from the mirror , aghast .
20 Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues .
21 Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror .
22 So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg .
23 By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror .
24 She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears .
25 They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question .
26 I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds .
27 She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window .
28 After all , that is the first thing about us that others see and a well-groomed , well-dressed image reflected back at us from the mirror goes a long way to bolstering our private and public confidence .
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