Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 2 | You 'll have to save it till Paul comes back for the car . |
| 3 | From that moment David took absolute control and while Rachel crawled back into the space and fitted the collar , immobilising Len as much as possible , he administered a pethidine injection , all the time talking and trying to reassure the patient . |
| 4 | It was after Vincent went back to The Hague to collect some belongings that his correspondence with his brother became really acrimonious . |
| 5 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 6 | The bottle was in his hand when Nicandra came back from the kitchen . |
| 7 | Jimmy was able to stand unassisted now as Cardiff turned back to the girl . |
| 8 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 9 | As crowds headed back into the West End after a 1,000lb IRA bomb was defused , the Met 's Commissioner-in-waiting Paul Condon said normal daily life must go on . |
| 10 | Kolchinsky was waiting in the foyer when Whitlock got back to the hotel . |
| 11 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 12 | When Ben came back to the table he placed the fork with great ceremony to the side of Millie 's plate , saying , ‘ There you are , madam . |
| 13 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 14 | When Tallis looked back at the leader he was slowly sitting up , reaching for his sword . |
| 15 | The girl looked up as Ebert came back into the hold , her eyes wide , filled with fear . |
| 16 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 17 | When Nara came back with the milk , the calf had collapsed , exhausted . |
| 18 | Laura was still roughly chastising herself , and attempting to ignore the hard knot of unsatisfied desire still gripping her body , when Ross came back into the room . |
| 19 | Her teeth stopped chattering , and when Matthew came back with the tea and the whisky , he remarked that the colour had come back into her face . |
| 20 | Sophie heaved a long sigh , then looked up as Helen came back to the table , her face drawn and anxious . |
| 21 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 22 | When Fred came back to the table , the two old friends suddenly fused and started to laugh , while Daisy had to wait upon them as their natural audience . |
| 23 | As Carrie limped back to the house beside Seb , she said , ‘ You 'll need to watch yourself , Seb . |
| 24 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
| 25 | As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak . |
| 26 | As Adam looked back through the split in the gates , he saw Curly Top , saw the evil hatred in his eyes . |
| 27 | The daylight faded when Raghunath came back to the teacher tired and dripping . |
| 28 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 29 | Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden . |
| 30 | Then she forgot her tears as Jack came back into the room . |