Example sentences of "the children [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jenks marched along the corridor , glaring wrathfully about him , and the children fell back on both sides without a murmur . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm scared of what may happen when the children go back . |
| 3 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 4 | The children went back to the rocks and the two men never referred to them again . |
| 5 | When the children came back from school they found that still nothing had changed . |
| 6 | It was n't badly paid , and she could be at home when the children came back from school , and get their tea . |
| 7 | ‘ Have the children gone back ? ’ |
| 8 | Well Jim , Jim saw the children going back to er school after swimming |
| 9 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 10 | The children drew back hastily to let her through and her progress across the asphalt was like that of Moses going through the Red Sea when the waters parted . |