Example sentences of "he [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tumbled back against the slick damp wall . |
| 2 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 3 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 4 | He got back into the front seat and we started up the coast . |
| 5 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 6 | As he moved back down the short landing toward the bathroom , Loren 's raised voice came to him again . |
| 7 | As he strolled back to the front window , and peered behind the curtains again , Bodie asked , ‘ And where were you on all these exotic foreign trips ? ’ |
| 8 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 9 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 10 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
| 11 | He flopped back onto the wet ground . |
| 12 | As he turned back to the eerie blue-blackness of the strip lights in the corridor , Cardiff heard a thick grunt and the slap of someone falling heavily to the tiled floor . |
| 13 | He turned back to the young soldier and patted him affectionately . |
| 14 | He turned back to the young T'ang , nodding . |
| 15 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 16 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 17 | He turned back to the little beggar girl but she had disappeared . |
| 18 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 21 | He walked back into the front room and placed the keys on the sideboard and then hung his jacket on the inside of the door . |
| 22 | As he walked back into the hot street he wondered if some royal bastard did indeed lurk in her family tree . |
| 23 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 24 | He glanced back at the dead girl and smiled , as if to chide her gently for her folly . |
| 25 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 26 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 27 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |
| 28 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | He went back into the smoke-logged coach on several occasions . ’ |
| 30 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |