Example sentences of "[vb past] back at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here . |
| 2 | He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return . |
| 3 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 4 | Clasper yelled back at the chanting mob . |
| 5 | The first night 's long walk up to the moor with the hives , Ruari glanced back at the wee lass trotting along behind Ranald 's lurch , gamely holding up her end of the staff . |
| 6 | Manville glanced back at the black sedan as the taxi surged forward . |
| 7 | He glanced back at the dead girl and smiled , as if to chide her gently for her folly . |
| 8 | The Governor glanced back at the solitary warder and nodded . |
| 9 | Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan . |
| 10 | Holly no longer looked at him , he stared back at the stunted ruin that had been the office of the Commandant . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man . |
| 12 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 13 | We looked back at the crumbling house . |
| 14 | He turned and looked back at the half-covered clinic , at the low exposed walls of the animal house . |
| 15 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
| 16 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 17 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 18 | The Duke looked back at the Prussian message . |
| 19 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 20 | Clasper screamed back at the chanting mob that they were management lackeys who had been conned by Peters , and sold down the river by Bunker . |
| 21 | When the ruler first came in contact with Millie 's knuckles she actually cried back at the startled sister , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 22 | Aggie smiled back at the excited teenager , |
| 23 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |
| 24 | She turned round and pointed back at the Victorian building with the campanile chimney . |