Example sentences of "[vb past] back [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 2 | Lewis caught her , staggered back a couple of steps , then forward , as Verity wrapped her arms round his neck and her legs round his waist ; white glances of thigh against the black . |
| 3 | ‘ Must give ye the question ! ’ he grinned sheepishly and staggered back a step . |
| 4 | She actually staggered back a step . |
| 5 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 6 | Drew back the shower curtain , |
| 7 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 8 | ’ Reid drew back the sheet to expose the girl 's dropped foot . |
| 9 | Slowly , carefully , he drew back the sheet , letting it slip from her body , exposing her nakedness . |
| 10 | The depth of the cut could be adjusted by means of a turn-screw which drew back the base plate . |
| 11 | I drew back the blanket and uncovered the head of the body . |
| 12 | He went to the window and drew back the curtain . |
| 13 | She drew back the curtain with her hand and looked both ways along the deserted street . |
| 14 | Max drew back the covering from the corpse , and even Lewis gave his second involuntary shudder of the night . |
| 15 | Robyn checked the mirror , made sure no flesh was visible from the neck down , drew back the bolt and opened the door . |
| 16 | Benjamin drew back the bolt and came out of the stable . |
| 17 | He fumbled with the lock , then drew back the catch . |
| 18 | Now Kiawah Island in South Carolina is firmly on the golfing map following September 's Ryder Cup match when the Americans snatched back the pot in that agonisingly close finish . |
| 19 | Do you want the curtains moved back a bit or |
| 20 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 21 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 22 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 23 | The book traced back the history of the Teutons to an infinitely remote period : and it proved once more that the original German-Teuton race was the true creator of European civilisation . |
| 24 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |
| 25 | On the flight down to Nanking , Tolonen played back the recording , the words sounding clearly in his head . |
| 26 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 27 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 28 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 29 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 30 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |