Example sentences of "she [verb] back the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | She drew back the curtain with her hand and looked both ways along the deserted street . |
| 7 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 8 | ‘ And when she came back the situation was reversed ? |
| 9 | It was a very satisfactory feeling , and she threw back the sheet to feel the caressing warmth of the morning on her body . |
| 10 | She handed back the drawing . |
| 11 | Then she folded back the top of the shift . |
| 12 | She folded back the quilt of cottonwool scattered with gold paper stars . |
| 13 | She thrust back the chair and strode round the desk , her two hands locked together and her whole figure trembling with rage . |
| 14 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 15 | She swallowed back the lump in her throat . |
| 16 | She swallowed back the lump in her throat and looked at the fire . |
| 17 | She draws back the sheet |
| 18 | She pulled back the sleeve gently . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | Her spine pressed against the rough bricks of one of the walls , she stared back the way she 'd come . |
| 21 | She rolled back the sleeve to reveal the place where the false hand fitted to the arm . |
| 22 | In a deliberately uncouth way , she drank back the rest of her wine . |
| 23 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 24 | And , glaring furiously into those mocking brown-gold eyes , she pushed back the chair as if to go . |
| 25 | She slid back the bolt on her home-made gun . |