Example sentences of "they [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 2 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 3 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 4 | ‘ And now , ’ she said much later , as they got back into the car , ‘ for Lord Byron . |
| 5 | They went outside and as they got back into the Kubelwagen Devlin said , ‘ Crete and the Afrika Korps , I see , and Stalingrad . |
| 6 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 7 | They got back into the car and drove slowly along the rutted , narrow turnoff , until finally Nicolo pointed to a low rise . |
| 8 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 9 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |
| 11 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 12 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 13 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got one thing to tell you and one favour to ask of you , ’ Ian said to Julia the minute they got back to the Amy Roy . |
| 15 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 16 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 17 | And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes . |
| 18 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 19 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 20 | They got back in the car and drove away in the glittering traffic . |
| 21 | They bring back down the laws of nature , if not of God himself . |
| 22 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 23 | If they sit back against the jolly green juggernaut they 'll get run over — make no mistake about it . |
| 24 | As they moved back into the drawing room Alex Mair introduced Dalgliesh . |
| 25 | They moved back into the sitting room and drank coffee . |
| 26 | They report back to the manager on the progress of the batches . |
| 27 | There he stood , a bogus angel standing between God the Creator and the people He had created , as they crumbled back into the clay they were made from . |
| 28 | They headed back to the kitchen . |
| 29 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 30 | They headed back towards the club house . |