Example sentences of "back [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erika heard something vague and peremptory from her mother and then , as the line went dead , the front door rattled , Herr Nordern came in , and Erika shrugged and dropped the phone back on to its holder . |
| 2 | Pascoe lowered the phone on Roxborough 's jubilation and set it gently back on to its cradle . |
| 3 | The editor put the receiver slowly back on to its rest . |
| 4 | The phone clicked back on to its rest . |
| 5 | In her haste , the wayward T-shirt had slipped , and she hooked it back on to her shoulder . |
| 6 | She nibbled a few more flakes of meat and dropped the bone back on to her plate . |
| 7 | Vitor asked , as he slid the topaz ring back on to her finger . |
| 8 | She forced the smile back on to her face . |
| 9 | She dropped her glasses back on to her nose , and lifted her book . |
| 10 | They screwed the caps back on to their thermos flasks , and jammed down the lids of their now empty plastic sandwich containers . |
| 11 | He insisted on washing up but then sank back on to his bunk , knuckling his eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a Venusian lullaby , ’ the Doctor said , clambering up from behind the table and cramming his hat back on to his head . |
| 13 | He dropped the envelope back on to his desk , drawing in a deep breath . |
| 14 | Glyn pushed his spectacles back on to his nose and frowned , sliding smoothly into his role of family defender . |
| 15 | Then Angel vaulted back on to his pony , which had just tottered groggily to its feet , and galloped back to the stables . |
| 16 | Charles breaks his arm on the polo field , incurring Diana 's wrath by ignoring medical advice and getting back on to his pony as soon as possible . |
| 17 | He turned back on to his left . |
| 18 | At last I fell back on to my stool and into the blackness of a drunken stupor . |
| 19 | I stared , open-mouthed , hardly even noticing that the Emissary 's hand had crept back on to my leg . |
| 20 | He would prefer not to come back on to my patch , and he has his own investments to look after in the City . |
| 21 | Pepita bent back down to her work and checked off another crate of bananas that would be shipped to lands she had never seen and would never see . |
| 22 | Her hand fell back down to her side . |
| 23 | Instead of walking back down to our house |
| 24 | The secret I find and you may over the next day or day and a half to a couple of days you may well see me just do that occasionally I 'll just throw my hands back down to me side . |
| 25 | If it comes out of your mouth spit it out , rather than let it go back down to your tummy . |
| 26 | He dropped back down to his cabin while she changed . |
| 27 | It is n't something you easily forget , ’ he added enigmatically , and with that he turned on his heel and strode back down to his office , emerging a moment later back in his normal working clothes . |
| 28 | Kate answered it and went back in to her mother . |
| 29 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 30 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |