Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |
| 2 | The depth of the cut could be adjusted by means of a turn-screw which drew back the base plate . |
| 3 | Some joker had daubed the pub sign on the reverse of a notice which looked back the way I had come . |
| 4 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 5 | At the Neretva River , where the road ends abruptly and without warning , Muslim soldiers wave their guns threateningly from the other side — a salutary reminder that the Muslim-Croat alliance which won back the city is deteriorating rapidly . |