Example sentences of "the man [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man walked back until the horse pulled back , then stopped and turned away again . |
| 2 | He was not the man to sit back and boast . |
| 3 | Involuntarily the man dropped back , propelled by the disproportionate violence of Dersingham 's manner . |
| 4 | The man got back in his car and drove the wrong way along the street . |
| 5 | The man shuffled back a few paces , bent almost double . |
| 6 | And , what 's more , ’ she added , for she was fond of her crazy friend , ‘ do n't tell him you want the man trap back , or you 're the one he 'll be keeping his eye on . ’ |
| 7 | The man jerks back |
| 8 | As they rounded the final bend in the long drive and the house came into view , the man reined back his horse , as did his companion . |
| 9 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 10 | When the man stepped back he trotted , stretching his neck to the ground . |
| 11 | Finally , when the man stepped back , the horse stopped and wheeled to face him , blowing down his nostrils as a warning . |
| 12 | The man stepped back in order to measure a punch . |
| 13 | Julie snatched at the knife as the man disappeared back into the blackness outside . |
| 14 | Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond . |
| 15 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 16 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 17 | The man came back and thrust a card at her . |
| 18 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 19 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 20 | A brisk nod from the Sergeant indicated an end to the interview , and the man went back to his paper work . |
| 21 | So ten years later and the man comes back , the ma they cos they 've never come and checked on them they just sling the food through a but open up the cell where the man had Samantha Fox and millions of little kids come running out , all different ages and sizes , millions of them . |
| 22 | The man turned back , looking at her . |
| 23 | He half turned , indecisive , and Huy caught sight of a grey profile , vaguely familiar , but the man turned back to Nubenehem before he could place it . |
| 24 | William saw the man lean back , one shoulder dropping slightly , then there was a flash of light which seemed to blind him and a searing pain . |
| 25 | Apparently satisfied , the man leaned back , stifling a choking , coughing fit . |
| 26 | When the man shouts back , ‘ I 'm drowning , ’ the journalist replies , ‘ You 're out of luck . |
| 27 | The trio use the bank at the side of the steps , the wheelchair tips , its passenger leaning forward , voices break the silence suddenly , laughter as the man pulls back on the handles , displaying his strength to the hunchback . |
| 28 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 29 | The knife clattered to the floor , and he threw in a right-hook to the jaw that sent the man reeling back against the counter , gasping , ‘ Pick it up , Mike — quick ! ’ |
| 30 | As the man fled back upstairs , Byron added , ‘ Heavens , but the man is stupid ! ’ |