Example sentences of "and [verb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After Mass and the chanting of the Divine Office , Athelstan thanked the priest but refused his kind offer of a meal and wandered back into Cheapside . |
| 32 | He then made the sign of the cross , said a Requiem for the poor steward 's soul , re-locked the hut , returned the key to the priest and wandered back into Cheapside . |
| 33 | If anything , increase plant protein and cut back on animal sources of protein , which are high in saturated fat . |
| 34 | Social services departments have been very badly hit as the growing problems of poverty and unemployment add to the pressure of their work , and yet they have had to abandon services and cut back on staffing . |
| 35 | It was n't , so I did another U-turn and cut back into Lee Metford Road . |
| 36 | She refused a further brandy and hastened back to La Gracieuse . |
| 37 | Once the engine caught , he turned the car round and drove back into Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , elevation 21 metres . |
| 38 | After an hour or so , wearied — as the combatants themselves had at last become — by the futility of it all , she abandoned her task and drove back to Roziac . |
| 39 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
| 40 | When the ceremony was over , Sabine slipped away from the congratulations and laughter , and the clicking cameras outside the church , and drove back to Les Hiboux . |
| 41 | She was sitting on the side of her bed , trembling with worry for him , undecided whether or not it would be safe to discard her bath towel and go to his help , when she heard a footstep on the stairs and bundled back into bed , anxious to conceal the unattractive evidence of her nasty little experience . |
| 42 | But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home . |
| 43 | But when the slogans appeared on the wall of two mosques and camel dung was dropped on the entrance of one of them they were very angry and came back to Owen and said that these were godless young and should be put down . |
| 44 | " After five days Rabscuttle slipped out again with the children and came back to El-ahrairah . |
| 45 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 46 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 47 | Wexford waited for her to talk of love and instead heard her say with a strange sense of shock , ‘ I gave up my job , as I told you , and came back to London to live with him . |
| 48 | The son of an Australian physicist , he was born in London but made his name initially in several Australian movies and came back to London in 1949 as a protégé of Laurence Olivier . |
| 49 | We all had heaps to eat , particularly the ice cream which we had n't seen since the war began , and came back to Huntingdon at midnight after a thoroughly enjoyable evening . |
| 50 | He returned to Britain to marry and came back to Madeira in 1811 , having opened his commercial house in 1808 and begun to deal in wine . |
| 51 | I gave up a promising career in advertising in England and came back to Barbados with him . |
| 52 | In the winter time they 'd come out on a Monday morning and came back on Tuesday from Kirkwall . |
| 53 | Bernard 's second sister went to Corfu for a holiday and came back with holiday snaps . |
| 54 | Alison ran out and came back with Gildas . |
| 55 | Her father was a schoolmaster who went to Lyon for a year as part of his training course and came back with Mme Wyatt in tow . |
| 56 | They made the changeover and came back into London on a District Line train from Richmond . |
| 57 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 58 | He says he knows you and came back in case you wanted to see him . ’ |
| 59 | It was not pretty to watch , with the ball often being held up and played back to Cann , but it was effective , and Farnham were ready to strike when their own chance came along . |
| 60 | Thus , the adjectives are prerecorded by the same speaker , at a rate of one every three seconds , and played back to subjects . |