Example sentences of "that [vb past] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when she had closed the door behind her and was hurrying along the corridor that led back into the hall that she noticed the painting . |
| 2 | At the one-way door that led back into the station 's tiny foyer and reception area , she stepped aside for him and said , ‘ I hope you find her . ’ |
| 3 | When she went through the door that led back into the kitchen , she found that Julius was still there . |
| 4 | He climbed the short steep ladder that led back onto the deck . |
| 5 | But a minute or two later , as they turned out of the car park and headed for the road that led back to the villa , Ronni gave way to the growing desolation within her . |
| 6 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 7 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 8 | He threw her a final black look and proceeded to storm past her , then paused at the edge of the path that led back through the gardens . |
| 9 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 10 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 11 | Invariably Titron came up , green water avalanching into white that flared back in the wind . |
| 12 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 13 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Techniques that went back to the age of Aristotle and the scholars of Alexandria were married to contemporary nations , among then the idea , conceived in the time of Leibnitz , of a historiography based on the study of original documents ; and the marriage bore fruit . |
| 15 | Through Morndun she saw writhing spirits and running ghosts that drifted back into the trees as her haunting gaze fell upon them and they became aware of being watched . |
| 16 | The smell that floated back from the river with its docks and factories was unpleasant , like her life at present . |