Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I reported back to the office on Monday morning . |
| 2 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 3 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |
| 4 | At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining . |
| 5 | But they struck back in the last 10 minutes with tries by their flanker Andy Williams and scrum-half Howard Evans . |
| 6 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 7 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 8 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 9 | But it comes back to the point of how much tempo passes in the one phrase . |