Example sentences of "and [vb past] back at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six . |
| 2 | Culley half-rose , but Cattini put out a hand to stop him , and glanced back at the barman who lifted a bottle and dug a highball glass into an ice-container . |
| 3 | Lambert stared , and looked back at the balloon . |
| 4 | They turned quickly and looked back at the city . |
| 5 | Andrew felt his heart turn over and looked back at the view so that she should n't see what she was doing to him . |
| 6 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |