Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he told the press of his son 's death , Mr Parry spoke with remarkable composure but he fought to hold back tears when asked if he felt anger for the IRA . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 3 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 4 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 5 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 6 | But he refused to sit back and taught himself to walk again . |
| 7 | He wondered if he ought to wait , but he wanted to get back to Rochester before she came afloat . |
| 8 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |