Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 2 | As she sank back against the cushions a sleek black cat appeared from nowhere and began to wind itself around her ankles . |
| 3 | Sighing , she ignored pride 's dictates and sank back against the pillows . |
| 4 | Marguerite left after this little show of determination and Jenna sank back against the pillows , realising that the thought of Alain coming back was a little worrying . |
| 5 | Relieved , she sank back against the pillows , brushed a shaky hand over her eyes . |
| 6 | She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes . |
| 7 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 8 | We headed back to the dockyards and on to the approach road for the Blackwall tunnel . |
| 9 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 10 | The two white men fled back to the settlements . |
| 11 | I wandered back down the stairs , past the washing draped over the bannisters and out onto the broken glass of the yard . |
| 12 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 13 | By the Canal Turn he was second , and he kept up his gallop as the field came back towards the stands , taking up the running with three fences to go . |
| 14 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 15 | Alex saw him looking at it as he came back with the glasses . |
| 16 | They came back with the monsters hide and a report on the blasted stone cover at the opening , and with theses verifications the authorities grew friendlier |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 18 | When Kāli came back with the cows only minutes later , she was caught in the full force of the downpour . |
| 19 | At dusk Śa kar came back with the cows . |
| 20 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 21 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 22 | Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time . |
| 23 | In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements . |
| 24 | ‘ Tennis came back to the Olympics for the first time in Seoul , and maybe now that it is recognised again as an Olympic sport , it will become more important in East Germany . |
| 25 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 26 | He came back down the stairs . |
| 27 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 28 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 29 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 30 | ( See appendix letter 3 and letter 4 which shows the reply which came back from the parents . ) |