Example sentences of "she [vb past] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 2 | Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan . |
| 3 | Purpose hard in her , she staggered back to the flat sheet of the blueness that was spread to catch the warmth of the sun and in her frozen hand was a knife sharpened by erosion from a rock . |
| 4 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 5 | Guy was sitting at the pool 's edge as she swam back to the shallow end . |
| 6 | Faye understood now too , and she sank back into the reclining lounge chair with a gesture of despair . |
| 7 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 8 | Instinctively she drew back against the damp cellar wall , willing herself to fuse into the crumbling , whitewashed brickwork . |
| 9 | We said no , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
| 10 | We said no , oh , I , I , I 'm doing everything that table says at the moment , so no , but I 'm going to give one to Shirley because she got most of the answer and then she came back with the right bit at the end as well . |
| 11 | She turned back to the left-hand side of the door and there , between Cross and the Diocesan Handbook , was the light green cover of the list of members of the Society of St Sylvester . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you get impertinent with me , Miss Honey ! ’ the Trunchbull snapped , then she turned back to the unfortunate Wilfred . |
| 13 | Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car . |
| 14 | She raced back to the smooth green paint that was evenly lit by a streetlamp ten yards away . |
| 15 | Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses . |
| 16 | She walked back to the empty station and leaned against the wall , smoking a cigarette . |
| 17 | She glanced back towards the narrow terrace and said , ‘ It 's very nice . |
| 18 | For as she pressed back against the front door , trembling and bewildered , she saw what was in substance her own house . |
| 19 | A few minutes later she slumped back into the front seat of the Granada . |
| 20 | Even this plan had to be revised when really bad weather struck and , after a couple of uncomfortable days hove-to off Jutland , she scuttled back down the Danish coast to Esjberg and , finally to the mouth of the Elbe and the Keil Canal . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've gained another four hundred grammes this week , ’ Faye told Belinda as she settled back into the semi-reclined passenger-seat of the Saab , while Belinda herself was at the wheel . |
| 22 | She looked back on the whole expanse of land |
| 23 | She looked back at the comatose Thomas and smiled . |
| 24 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 25 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 26 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 27 | Limply she fell back against the unyielding scrubland , sobbing and crying , numb to everything but Fernando 's flutter of consoling kisses across her face and throat . |
| 28 | The wall of the house was behind her and she leant back against the warm brickwork and closed her eyes . |
| 29 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |
| 30 | She went back to the overgrown ride where she had left Lord Wyatt . |