Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group ! |
| 2 | Rincewind peered around the doorframe and jerked back as a heavy throwing axe whirred past like a partridge . |
| 3 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 4 | No , went on a hovercraft well wen went on the hovercraft and came back on a , a ferry on the boat . |
| 5 | He walked to his tool shed and came back with a garden spade . |
| 6 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 7 | And last night she went to a do at the American Embassy and came back with a packet of chocolate cookies — er — biscuits , no less . ’ |
| 8 | Giving her his hanky , he went back to the restaurant and came back with a glass of iced water . |
| 9 | For example , they describe a child reading the following passage from " Black Beauty " : Then someone ran to our master 's house and came back with a gun ; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful shriek , and then all was still ; the black horse moved no more . |
| 10 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 11 | He left the library and came back with a riding crop . |
| 12 | He went into the small scullery and came back with a pomander , a ball of cloth stuffed with cloves and herbs . |
| 13 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 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 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 16 | She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter . |
| 17 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 18 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 19 | Zena Blair went shopping in the Northcott Centre last week and came back with a computer in her trolly . |
| 20 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 21 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 22 | He parked the car a street away and walked back through a gauntlet of whispers and stony smiles . |
| 23 | Her hair was snow-white and brushed back into a neat bun . |
| 24 | Sleek city style is waved and brushed back into a soft full shape for casual dressing . |
| 25 | Eventually she got up , removed the bung once more with a gloved hand , and stepped back as a tongue of yellow flame licked out at her . |
| 26 | Mr Beckenham let go her wrist and stepped back with a little bow , gesturing to the table . |
| 27 | Rosa adjusted the cold compress on her forehead , and settled back on a chair against the wall , watching Cati as she lay . |
| 28 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 29 | With an almost lazy climb the solid fuel missile , grapple irons extending as it left the short barrel , reached its zenith and fell back with a clang , hooking on to the deck railing . |
| 30 | He tried to stand up and fell back with a little snort of pain . |