Example sentences of "the men [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men fell back , or fell down in some cases , and Benny leapt off the edge of the dock just ahead of a swarm of angrily buzzing bullets . |
| 2 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
| 3 | There was the question of cancelling the whole Festival , but fortunately that did not prove to be necessary , and by the end of the week the strike collapsed — and , tragically , the men went back to work having gained nothing . |
| 4 | The men came back across the courtyard . |
| 5 | One of the men came back with a woman . |
| 6 | I was interested in you talking there about you know , that one , that particular case whereby one bloke was threatened with dismissal and very rapidly the way you describe it , the men came back with a threat of strike action . |
| 7 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 8 | It was already in her hand before he spoke , and by the time the men came back with the table and pillows they were running in normal saline through a line in his hand . |
| 9 | After each incident the men go back and report . |
| 10 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 11 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |