Example sentences of "and [verb] back at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was supposed to open and flap back at the end of the world and let her out , resurrected . |
| 2 | Under the circumstances , with the band far keener to slope off and mope back at the hotel , the gig goes remarkably well . |
| 3 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 4 | Yet the incident may have been deliberately provoked : some of the demonstrators were armed , and fired back at the police . |
| 5 | He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six . |
| 6 | The Volvo tour takes in solidly Socialist villages like Senghenydd and Abertridwr , includes a couple of detours for navigational error ( ‘ I 'm new here ’ says Stan ) and ends back at the station with just seconds before the train departs . |
| 7 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 8 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 9 | Culley half-rose , but Cattini put out a hand to stop him , and glanced back at the barman who lifted a bottle and dug a highball glass into an ice-container . |
| 10 | That poor unfortunate had to stoke the fire , pump the tilly lamps , dash upstream to unblock the water pipe , boil the kettle — on the open fire — and arrive back at the card table an exhausted , nervous wreck . |
| 11 | Lambert stared , and looked back at the balloon . |
| 12 | They turned quickly and looked back at the city . |
| 13 | Andrew felt his heart turn over and looked back at the view so that she should n't see what she was doing to him . |
| 14 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 15 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 16 | The corner shop comes into view , with JJ 's ugly mug peering round it , and jerking back at the sight of me , and I am killing myself with laughter inside as Miss Plum and I walk right past , together . |
| 17 | In the end , of course , the theory is that the bird gets used to the food being there and comes back at the wag of a finger . |