Example sentences of "back [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 2 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 3 | ‘ You look frozen , ’ she exclaimed , stepping back to let him into the hall . |
| 4 | ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself ! |
| 5 | SUEDE 's past has come back to haunt them in the form of a former business associate with whom they had dealings before signing to the Nude label . |
| 6 | Even in going concerns , the ghosts come back to haunt you through the flotsam of old files and folders , especially those emanating from some long-forgotten ‘ project ’ . |