Example sentences of "and [vb past] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | From this point , Witney took the bit between their teeth and fought back in search of an equaliser . |
2 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |
3 | Reaching the haven of her bedroom , she stripped off her clothes again , wrapped herself in her dressing gown and got back into bed . |
4 | We did get a birdie at the 5th and got back at Bernhard , and that seemed to put Seve in good spirit . |
5 | A monitoring system was devised ( based on Japanese experienced ) and reported back to NPP and WANO management . |
6 | The vehicle details were taken down and reported back to Holbaek immediately . |
7 | He glared at Conroy without seeing him and charged back into No. 4 , slamming the door . |
8 | As soon as she could find a convenient place to do so , she turned the car and headed back towards Hallborough . |
9 | She peeped into the hall and drew back in shock . |
10 | With an irritating lack of urgency he closed his eyes again and sank back into oblivion , leaving Lissa to grind her teeth in frustration . |
11 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
12 | The harsh central neon light glared down onto the contours of the sheeting , and gouged back at Erlich 's eyes from the white-tiled walls . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She refused a further brandy and hastened back to La Gracieuse . |
16 | Once the engine caught , he turned the car round and drove back into Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , elevation 21 metres . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The postman thanked him for the warning and drove back to Mount Carmel . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | " After five days Rabscuttle slipped out again with the children and came back to El-ahrairah . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I gave up a promising career in advertising in England and came back to Barbados with him . |