Example sentences of "he back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And slowly , luring him with the chocolate wrapping , he led him back towards the feeding-place . |
| 2 | He came up off the floor in one swift , powerful lunge , slamming the full force of his body into Boisson and driving him back towards the dungeon before the man could gather himself for another swing . |
| 3 | The two sailors took Paddy by his elbows , pulling him back towards the warehouse . |
| 4 | Whitlock shoved him back onto a tarpaulin in the corner of the warehouse and scooped up the Browning . |
| 5 | He posted the detective constable he had with him back down the path to join his colleague , armed with instructions to repel all attempts by anyone , however senior or armed with whatever authority , to go anywhere near the body unless he , Sergeant Black , personally accompanied them . |
| 6 | I SAID I WOULD PHONE HIM BACK WITH A DATE AND TIME , BUT DID SAY YOU WERE BUSY . |
| 7 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 8 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 9 | A long exile ended in 1989 when England manager Geoff Cooke , no longer able to ignore Hill 's superb form for all-conquering Bath , brought him back for the game against Fiji at Twickenham . |
| 10 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 11 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 12 | Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll be shock ; we 'll take him back to the centre with us . ’ |
| 14 | Send him back to the Army . |
| 15 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 16 | We brought him here ou , he changed his clothes from his own suit into the pied piper and erm then we got him back to the Prince of Wales Theatre . |
| 17 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 18 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 19 | A sudden crash of cymbals pulled him back to the present . |
| 20 | Seton 's body was quickly reinterred and , despite Sir James ' protests , Corbett insisted that his escort accompany him back to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll take him back to the school , Headmaster , ’ she said . |
| 22 | And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night . |
| 23 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 24 | The calculation is that increased pressure on Hun Sen will force him back to the negotiating table , ready to make the dreaded concession : the inclusion of the Khmer Rouge in a political settlement . |
| 25 | ‘ He sent him back to the pub ; he sat there for a while , and when he came back he 'd got the front shoes on . |
| 26 | The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 28 | Ranulf sighed , pocketed the leather strap , waited for the porter to re-bury the bones and half-carried him back to the priory , listening to the fellow 's litany of self-congratulation . |
| 29 | We call upon the BBC for a radical change of policy and demand programmes which build character instead of destroying it , which encourage and sustain faith in God and bring Him back to the heart of our family and national life . |
| 30 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |