Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he 'd seen Buzz safely on the plane to Nice , he planned to drive back to London , where he would telephone Annabel in New York before seeing Miranda . |
| 2 | As he told the press of his son 's death , Mr Parry spoke with remarkable composure but he fought to hold back tears when asked if he felt anger for the IRA . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 4 | From the start , as in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky is projecting a theoretical murderer , the difference being that Raskolnikov was an ex-student , only potentially an eternal student , because in the event he got pulled back out of theory into living life . |
| 5 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 6 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 7 | She said , ‘ Good-bye , Mister Johnny , ’ and smiled at him , and at first he tried to smile back , twitching the good side of his mouth . |
| 8 | He tried to smile back , and winced as his stiff and swollen upper lip objected agonisingly . |
| 9 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 10 | He tried to bite back a laugh , but the grin would not be entirely suppressed . |
| 11 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 12 | He tried to come back too soon and made things worse but when he has played he 's looked bang in form . |
| 13 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 14 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 15 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 16 | He tried to fight back , but there were too many of them — he could not tell how many , for the attack came from all sides at once . |
| 17 | He tried to fight back , clutching at her throat and digging his thumbs into her Adam 's apple , but she bit into his thumb until she drew blood , kicking again at the big man . |
| 18 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 19 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 20 | When he promised to come back |
| 21 | Joseph found he could n't sit still and he rose to pace back and forth at a distance from the others . |
| 22 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 23 | He 'd gone back to his stew , and silence . |
| 24 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 25 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 26 | We all used to bite our lips and nod wisely at these theological conundrums , holding our breath until he 'd gone back upstairs before dissolving into laughter . |
| 27 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
| 28 | Or maybe he 'd gone back to patch things up with his fiancée ? |
| 29 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 30 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |