Example sentences of "she [verb] back [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving up the battle to make her restless mind switch off , she flung back the duvet and got out of bed . |
| 2 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |
| 3 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 4 | ‘ Hi , lover , ’ she said , her lips trembling as she fought back the urge to weep with happiness at his recovery . |
| 5 | The warmth in his voice reached out to her , thawing the numb , frozen parts deep inside , and she choked back a sob . |
| 6 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 7 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 8 | She drew back the curtain with her hand and looked both ways along the deserted street . |
| 9 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 10 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 11 | She came back a week or so later to Farnham , plastered , in the literal sense , and indomitable . |
| 12 | ‘ And when she came back the situation was reversed ? |
| 13 | It was a very satisfactory feeling , and she threw back the sheet to feel the caressing warmth of the morning on her body . |
| 14 | She handed back the drawing . |
| 15 | Then she folded back the top of the shift . |
| 16 | She folded back the quilt of cottonwool scattered with gold paper stars . |
| 17 | She thrust back the chair and strode round the desk , her two hands locked together and her whole figure trembling with rage . |
| 18 | She stepped back a pace and watched as he looked across at the Fiesta then at the house once more . |
| 19 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 20 | Desperately she swallowed back a tide of emotion . |
| 21 | She swallowed back the lump in her throat . |
| 22 | She swallowed back the lump in her throat and looked at the fire . |
| 23 | She draws back the sheet |
| 24 | She pulled back the sleeve gently . |
| 25 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 26 | Her spine pressed against the rough bricks of one of the walls , she stared back the way she 'd come . |
| 27 | She rolled back the sleeve to reveal the place where the false hand fitted to the arm . |
| 28 | She bit back a gasp of sheer pleasure . |
| 29 | In a despairing sweep her gaze ran over the dress , and she bit back a groan . |
| 30 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |