Example sentences of "back [coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threw his head back and laughed like a young and boisterous man , till the drops flashed from the clustering wet tendrils of his iron-grey hair . |
| 2 | Everyone , parents and boys , craned their necks back and stared into the cerulean blue above the Village . |
| 3 | She tipped her head back and stared at the tumbling nymphs and satyrs that danced across it , trailing garlands of flowers . |
| 4 | ’ Alistair tipped his head back and stared at the coagulated window . |
| 5 | He glanced at Ajayi , who smiled back and motioned towards the small attendant . |
| 6 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 7 | She stumbled back and turned into the reaching arms of a man-shaped thing that was coming down on her . |
| 8 | He clasped and unclasped his wiry hands two or three times as though wringing out a rag , pulled his legs on to the bed , sat back and replied in a raucous whisper . |
| 9 | She smiled back and squeezed through the intervening people to his side . |
| 10 | They were all pretty well oiled by then so I went back and sat with the other children . |
| 11 | At the nineteenth , a big open ditch , he stood back and put in an extravagant leap : he still had plenty of gas in the tank . |