Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun pl] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she began each one , Mum 's words came back to her and she felt her cheeks growing hot . |
| 2 | Tommaso recognised its badger markings and the flap of its wings as it climbed ; he stuck the gun to his eye , tracked the bird , and fired ; the plover 's wings flew back and spread fanwise , in a cancan of swirling feathers , then it spun and came hurtling down . |
| 3 | Dave Mitchell typifying Town 's efforts to get back to winning ways . |
| 4 | Tug 's eyes snapped back into focus and there was Hank , sitting in Mrs Mallory 's front room . |
| 5 | The carefully leaked revelations about her battle with the binge-eating disease bulimia nervosa and her suicide attempts had caused her husband 's friends to hit back . |
| 6 | my father 's eyes rolled back |
| 7 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 8 | The last of his five victories in the Tour , in 1985 , was partly owed to LeMond , who obeyed his manager 's instructions to hold back when he could have taken the lead from an older man . |
| 9 | The woman 's sleeves fell back and there was the handpainting . |
| 10 | Later in the afternoon the sheriff 's men came back and dragged me up before the justices . |
| 11 | Eventually the doctor 's fingers came back again , back to where the lump was . |
| 12 | Then the Prophet 's lips drew back from his teeth in a soundless snarl of triumph , and the next thing Curtis knew , he was staring down the muzzle of the gun the other had levelled at him from point blank range . |
| 13 | The inquiry into the squad 's practices went back to 1984 , but Mr Dear was confident that the events of 1974 , when the Birmingham bombings took place , would be re-examined if new evidence was found : ‘ If it was there … |
| 14 | I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat . |
| 15 | He jabbed the Englishman twice in the ribs again , watched him fight to control the pain , watched his victim 's eyes drift back into focus . |