Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 2 | With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay . |
| 3 | She led him back to school kindly . |
| 4 | Taking his hand , she led him back inside . |
| 5 | She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home . |
| 6 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 7 | The tears threatened , but she fought them back . |
| 8 | Blinking , she fought them back , aware of their actual withdrawal . |
| 9 | The word trembled on the tip of her tongue , but she choked it back just in time . |
| 10 | and she got it back straight away so that 's alright again now . |
| 11 | She straightened her back and a small smile began to spread over her lips as she said , ‘ I wonder what Mrs Funnell will say to this ? |
| 12 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 13 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 14 | Anyway sh she phoned me back and she said yes he was , he was dead keen , he wished it 'd 've just been like pop quiz but he 'll go anyway . |
| 15 | Would it be embarrassing for her if she invited you back ? |
| 16 | " Well , of course she beat him back . |
| 17 | Suddenly noticing the position of her hands , she snatched them back , thrusting aside fitzAlan 's supporting arm . |
| 18 | She snatched it back . |
| 19 | In her haste , the wayward T-shirt had slipped , and she hooked it back on to her shoulder . |
| 20 | She Sellotaped it back on . |
| 21 | She shooed him back to bed in front of her and he went meekly enough , entering with studied indifference , tapping his fingertips together as he went . |
| 22 | I returned it , she slammed it back , I caught it neatly , spun round and delivered a deft backward glance over my left shoulder . |
| 23 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 25 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |
| 26 | In the evening she drove them back to the village . |
| 27 | She dropped it back on the pile . |
| 28 | She threw it back . |
| 29 | She reached and grabbed the tail of his long jacket , and she hauled him back down the stairs . |
| 30 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |