Example sentences of "he [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 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 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He turned back to the young soldier and patted him affectionately . |
| 10 | He turned back to the young T'ang , nodding . |
| 11 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 12 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 13 | He turned back to the little beggar girl but she had disappeared . |
| 14 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |
| 17 | Then right at the end of the interview , he comes back to the fundamental question about himself — what is on offer . |