Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat howled , dropped to the ground , and shot between Suragai 's legs and disappeared back inside Kiku 's yurt . |
| 2 | The reporter uncrossed his legs and sat back in his chair . |
| 3 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 4 | The next thing you knew , there 'd be , oh , I do n't know , a fifteen-year-old Pole sliding off the table and rubbing his eyes and sauntering back to work , accompanied by an orderly and his understanding smile . |
| 5 | Now dry your eyes and get back to work . ’ |
| 6 | Vincent looked towards Lily , who raised her eyes and looked back at him sadly . |
| 7 | Yanto took a long swig of cider , then closed his eyes and leaned back against the tree trunk with a sign of contentment . |
| 8 | The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer . |
| 10 | Unless she cut her losses and went back to England . |
| 11 | The small voice inside her , urging her to cut her losses and go back to England , leaving the residents at the Château La Tour Monchauzet to stew in their own rancour , was being overwhelmed by a furious determination to vindicate her mother 's memory at all costs . |
| 12 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 13 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 14 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 15 | sometimes they come to Edinburgh and then go away for six months and come back to Glasgow |
| 16 | She spun on her heels and walked back to where Bernard was sitting . |
| 17 | But he found the American rocking on his heels and smiling back at him engagingly , and the slow drawl of his address continued without pause . |
| 18 | She pushed the tray off her knees and lay back on the pillow . |
| 19 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 20 | Rostov lowered himself on to his knees and sat back on his heels . |
| 21 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 22 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 23 | And five minutes later , carrying in the two mugs and settling back in his chair , he could relish the contrast between Rickards 's preoccupation with psychopathic violence and the peace of the mill . |
| 24 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 25 | He ran back to the window , snatched the keys and tore back to the boot . |
| 26 | He thrust both hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels . |
| 27 | I put my hands in my pockets and leant back against the wall . |
| 28 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 29 | I got to my feet and walked back into the apartment . |
| 30 | He clambered slowly back to his feet and ambled back to the village . |