Example sentences of "she [verb] [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 | And she wants him back . " |
| 16 | She wants them back . |
| 17 | Would it be embarrassing for her if she invited you back ? |
| 18 | " Well , of course she beat him back . |
| 19 | I did n't feel loved before , but now I have somebody that 's dependent on me , I have something of my own to love , and she loves me back . |
| 20 | Suddenly noticing the position of her hands , she snatched them back , thrusting aside fitzAlan 's supporting arm . |
| 21 | She snatched it back . |
| 22 | and then , she tells me to put the phone down , and she rings me back . |
| 23 | 4 If the ward nurse is satisfied with the patient 's condition she accepts him back into her care and escorts him quietly back to the ward ensuring his safety by maintaining the airway and close observation . |
| 24 | In her haste , the wayward T-shirt had slipped , and she hooked it back on to her shoulder . |
| 25 | She Sellotaped it back on . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I returned it , she slammed it back , I caught it neatly , spun round and delivered a deft backward glance over my left shoulder . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 30 | All too soon it was time to go and it was almost reluctantly that she drove him back to Brooklands . |