Example sentences of "back to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 2 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 3 | He adjusted his paper hat and turned back to his stove . |
| 4 | Philip waited till he could n't see him any more , then went back to his hide . |
| 5 | At nine the headmaster , who had introduced him , escorted him back to his hotel and up to his room . |
| 6 | Peter took it all quietly , of course , and it would n't surprise me if , when all the fuss had died down , he went back to his hotel and did a bit of painting . |
| 7 | Quinn left the booth and walked back to his hotel . |
| 8 | He 'd met the girls in a nightclub in Atlanta and took them back to his hotel to make the one film he did n't expect anyone else but him to see . |
| 9 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 10 | We talked a bit then I gave him a lift back to his hotel . |
| 11 | Bob suggests that we all go back to his hotel room for a ‘ smoke and a shag ’ . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the working breakfasts , the working lunches , the sock-it-to-'em suppers and the power parties , he still had two or three hours of paperwork to deal with each evening after he stumbled back to his hotel room . |
| 13 | Wycliffe went back to his hotel and to bed . |
| 14 | He went back to his hotel for lunch and was surprised now that the conference had ended to find a good crowd in the dining-room , which was open to non-residents . |
| 15 | He had to leave it , so he borrowed mine to get back to his hotel . |
| 16 | Wycliffe , unsettled in his mind , made a broad detour on the way back to his hotel . |
| 17 | Jimmy went back to his conversation with the tattooed man , his thumb now resting casually in Sean 's belt loop . |
| 18 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 19 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 20 | Frankie 's On brought him full circle in a way , taking him back to his music hall roots with its audience involvement . |
| 21 | Then his eyes finally flicked back to his secretary . |
| 22 | Then he turned back to his secretary . |
| 23 | Most of the ballroom saw the despatch being given , and could tell from Webster 's dust-stained boots that he must have ridden hard to bring the paper to Brussels , but the Prince merely thrust the despatch into a pocket of his coat and went back to his scrutiny of the younger women . |
| 24 | It always came back to his daughter . |
| 25 | We 'd hoped to have a beer afterwards , but Leo had disappeared probably back to his daughter and girl friend . |
| 26 | Going back to his Aussie roots , he remembered the role Semillon played down there , but good Semillon is virtually non-existent in California . |
| 27 | It was three-quarters of a length back to his stablemate , a 40–1 chance , and the first six home were all drawn low . |
| 28 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 29 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 30 | He turned back to his drink , shaking his head in mock despair . |