Example sentences of "[vb past] back at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time she staggered back at the force of his tongue , invading , probing and making her gasp with unwanted pleasure . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’ |
| 3 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 4 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 5 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 6 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 7 | And so hopefully you came back at the end of the day with quite a bou bag full on your bike , or a box it was , fitted in a carrier , full . |
| 8 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 9 | He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six . |
| 10 | When he arrived back at the hall Bourne was there alone . |
| 11 | There were several messages for her when she arrived back at the hotel , and she worked at her desk until six before walking back to the house through the gathering dusk . |
| 12 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 13 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 14 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 15 | She arrived back at the village just as night was turning into day . |
| 16 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
| 17 | When I finally arrived back at the Bible Room , headvoice was giving me unmerciful stick : |
| 18 | The wedding party was in full swing when she arrived back at the château . |
| 19 | The waiter arrived back at the table and Fernando stood to speak to him . |
| 20 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
| 21 | The TARDIS arrived back at the hospital just as two Marines escorted Benny inside . |
| 22 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 23 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 24 | Before she arrived back at the house , my sister would do as most kids would . |
| 25 | Unaware that the first tightening tugs on the net around her family 's attackers had begun , Chrissie Stone arrived back at the house at six that same evening , the boot of her small car loaded with supermarket supplies . |
| 26 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 27 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 28 | She was on the point of ordering some of her people to hurry over to Acropolis Park to call in person , when one of her more canny officers , who had lost no time in searching the sector , arrived back at the Club . |
| 29 | It reminded them of when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey turned back at the airport in 1976 over a sterling crisis . |
| 30 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |