Example sentences of "as he [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw Mariana shiver as he went back to the table and slipped the Walther into his belt . |
| 2 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 3 | As he came back into the hall , his face irregularly illuminated by its flame , she was overwhelmed by the dramatic beauty of his features . |
| 4 | Evelyn asked as he came back into the room . |
| 5 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 6 | She was still silently pondering this as he came back into the room and smiled across at his mother . |
| 7 | Alex saw him looking at it as he came back with the glasses . |
| 8 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 9 | She was stirring the coffee in front of her , an innocent expression on her face as he came back to the table . |
| 10 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 11 | He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror . |
| 12 | He switched off the flashlight as he came back around the dirt path . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 15 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 16 | His legs were trembling as he ran back to the police car to radio for immediate medical help . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's so versatile , ’ said Henry , aloud , as he drove back down the hill , ‘ There are so many things you can do with thallium ! ’ |
| 18 | He responded by explaining to the chairman of the committee , the fashionable playwright and military man John Burgoyne , how he had entered Murshidabad the capital of Bengal as a conqueror and how bankers and jewellers had rushed forward to thrust presents on him ; and , he concluded , as he thought back to the moment of triumph , ‘ By God , Mr. Chairman , I stand amazed at my own moderation . ’ |
| 19 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 20 | As he stepped back into the circle of dimming green light issuing from the door of the transmat booth he looked for a moment like some bizarre demon that Francis had summoned . |
| 21 | ‘ Straight on , ’ Ward said as he got back into the driving seat . |
| 22 | As soon as he got back to the hut he passed his grandparents a bowl of water each . |
| 23 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 24 | As he strode back towards the stairs , his mother spoke , pleadingly . |
| 25 | Rebecque spoke with a sudden urgency as he strode back to the table and tapped the map . |
| 26 | When he came back out again there was a grim anger in his face as he strode back to the car and climbed in beside her . |
| 27 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 28 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 29 | As he walked back into the hot street he wondered if some royal bastard did indeed lurk in her family tree . |
| 30 | As he walked back to the farmhouse with her , they talked of his plans for Boldwood 's farm . |