Example sentences of "he [verb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 2 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 3 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 4 | He turns back to Howard . |
| 5 | He turns back to her . |
| 6 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 7 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 8 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 9 | International : Defiant exile held as he flies back to Malawi |
| 10 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 11 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 12 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 13 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 14 | Nobody will blame you , and Mr Mason will tell your uncle so , when he goes back to Madeira . ’ |
| 15 | He visits them once or twice a year when he goes back to India . |
| 16 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 17 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 18 | Ostensibly he 's talking about his career and history department and he goes back to it again . |
| 19 | But I 've told Paul that if he goes back to Karen and you know takes some his things out . |
| 20 | yes , he does n't want to stay with her , but I 've told Paul that if he goes back to Karen and take some of his things out , then he takes all of his things out and himself and he never comes back |
| 21 | Yeah but the new rules for our age group is you have half of the scrum and then you have the scrumhalf and he puts the ball in and he goes back to his side does n't he ? |
| 22 | Yeah I do n't say we do n't row , I do n't say we do n't argue and get on each other 's nerves , we do , but when he goes back to work now for a couple of days it 'll take me three or four days to settle down into not having him there . |
| 23 | Then he goes back to er for a week or so , then his back at and there really treating him , but of course he wo n't . |
| 24 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 25 | He whipped back to Blanche again . |
| 26 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 27 | When he got back to Cambridge Michael ( still a boy of 15 ) read Romanes . |
| 28 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 29 | He collapsed with a dangerous fever and inflammation when he got back to Glasgow . |
| 30 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |