Example sentences of "and [verb] back [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprised into consciousness , alone in the black hemisphere , he cries until he laughs ; then he uses the chamberpot that Rosa readied , and goes back to sleep quickly , despite the pain . |
| 2 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 3 | Rachel followed a squealing Belinda down the steps while David walked up to the deep end , dived in and swam back to join the rest of the group . |
| 4 | Dot pushed back the blanket , slid off Gloria 's lap and moved back to sit by her window . |
| 5 | Watch your pockets , ’ we both said in unison and moved back to give the man space . |
| 6 | She dabs a little powder on top , and stands back to admire the effect . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 8 | The ale wife went away cackling and came back to serve both of them huge tankards slopping over with ale and a shared platter of meat mixed with onions and leeks swimming in a sea of grease . |
| 9 | The winter weather they had fought in was atrocious but some of Wellington 's veterans took kindly to the region and came back to settle there ; others presumably publicized it in Britain . |
| 10 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 11 | They took turns to go back to a hotel to sleep , and came back to take their places on watch and yell ‘ Pamella ! |
| 12 | IN WHICH the barefoot songstrel rewrote her life story for the late Eighties , and came back to claim what should have been hers years before . |
| 13 | He moved agitatedly across the room and then turned and came back to stand over Briant 's chair . |
| 14 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 15 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
| 16 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 17 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 18 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 19 | He set off into the fog to find out where he was , and came back to find Tess fast asleep . |
| 20 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 21 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 22 | He trod water as the ketch sailed away from him , and raised a hand so that his crew could see him and sail back to pick him up . |
| 23 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 24 | and faded back to dry , scarcely-seen threads , |
| 25 | So madness , or certain radical forms of writing , such as that of Sade , Bataille , Blanchot or Roussel , by transgressing the limits of order and turning back to reflect upon it , enable a space from which a critique can be made . |
| 26 | He opened an owlish eye and barked unconvincingly at us before yawning and going back to sleep . |
| 27 | ‘ A nice fresh herring , ’ he murmured , turning over and going back to sleep . |
| 28 | Already she 's talking about playschool and going back to work part-time . |
| 29 | I mean , it 's not like waving a banner at a demo on Sunday afternoon and going back to work on Monday . |
| 30 | We sat for a while just watching and listening to the water and turned back to follow the path out of the steep-sided gill towards Cotterdale . |