Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 2 | One voice followed another , and she had almost stopped listening altogether when a sudden difference jerked her back to avid attention . |
| 3 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 4 | As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers . |
| 5 | What I done , I taped it back like that . |
| 6 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 7 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 8 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
| 9 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 10 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 11 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 12 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 13 | Then he reached out , grasped Mandy 's outstretched hand and pulled her back to safe , solid ground . |
| 14 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 15 | As soon as McMahon helped them solve that ( his computations backed the coach , who said the track should be banked as high as his belt buckle at the outside of the turn ) , they called him back with another question : how springy should they make the track ? |
| 16 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 17 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 18 | After he 'd had a heart attack , we got him back to good health . |
| 19 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |
| 20 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 21 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |
| 22 | In fact , such was my dread of returning home , I nearly managed to miss my plane , but somehow the clockwork motor inside me brought me back in one piece . |
| 23 | ‘ And we both know you 're not a saint , do n't we ? ’ she mocked and precipitated them back into that heady realm of awareness that they had seemed to subdue . |
| 24 | The pain of it took me back to that earlier pain as a six-year-old , and all the anguish of inappropriate separation . |
| 25 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
| 26 | Jeff Mills and Mike Banks first brought him back into public view with the ‘ Prince Of Techno ’ EP , a milestone groin-level mesmeriser . |
| 27 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 28 | I am the girl that kidnapped little Oliver and took him back to old Fagin 's house on the night Oliver was going to the bookseller . ’ |
| 29 | Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 . |
| 30 | Nigger picked up his scotch and tossed it back in one easy movement . |