Example sentences of "he was [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 2 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 3 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 4 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 5 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 6 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 7 | For a moment he was swept back into the past to those days when her temper would flare into demoniac rage . |
| 8 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |
| 9 | Having made his eccentric gesture , John returned to his position at the bow of the boat and to the strains of a rousing strathspey he was rowed back to the shore . |
| 10 | Then he was thrown back across the table , sprawling beneath the lights like an unwilling patient . |
| 11 | 2 weeks after he was allowed back on the streets , Andrew Hagans murdered Anna McGurk . |
| 12 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 13 | He was travelling back from a gig in the band 's van when the argument broke out . |
| 14 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 15 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 16 | However , he was not thrown out , he was taken back to the station and locked up for the night . |
| 17 | He was taken back to the ward on his bed and staff nurse then checked his condition . |
| 18 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 19 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 20 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |
| 21 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 22 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 23 | In time , he was welcomed back to the Salvation Army , who even arranged for a star bearing his name to be laid on Hollywood Boulevard alongside those of the great movie stars . |
| 24 | ‘ In a Darkfall — they do , ’ replied Rohmer — and now he was striding back through the biting wind towards the office block . |
| 25 | Noah was jealous because Oliver went out to burials while he was left back in the shop , so he treated him even worse than before . |
| 26 | It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday . |
| 27 | He was hauled back on the edge of the area by O'Leary , a ‘ professional ’ foul for which the Arsenal central defender was booked . |
| 28 | After the year 's training , he was brought back into the company as group finance director . |
| 29 | The head 's face immediately fell , as he was brought back to the tribulations of the moment . |
| 30 | However , he assured her that the fact Putt was conscious when he was brought back to the manor meant he had probably suffered no permanent damage . |