Example sentences of "back [coord] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came back and unlocked the car , helping her into the passenger seat . |
| 2 | He leant back and laid the papers down . |
| 3 | At Clermont-Ferrand , however , he came back and brought the famous 003 to its final win . |
| 4 | Rosten stepped back and raised the sword . |
| 5 | Sometimes she said simply that she did not know when he would be back and dropped the phone . |
| 6 | I have heard of the Hibs casuals though , they attacked a Manc baggy band called Paris Angels a couple of years back and left the singer with stitches . |
| 7 | Aelis snatched it back and blew the ashes from it for him , blinking back tears . |
| 8 | Yet as she sank to the floor and died they fell back , they shrank back and made the space for her she had needed for life . |
| 9 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 10 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 11 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
| 12 | They looked back and saw the stag bound out of the wood . |
| 13 | They stared back and saw the colour come and go in her face . |
| 14 | As I struck northwards , climbing heavily towards Barbondale , I looked back and saw the river Lune cut like a golden scratch on the face of the earth leading towards Morecambe Bay , the far fells of the Lake District just visible through the afternoon light . |
| 15 | When he came back and saw the cages and animal houses he knew immediately that he would never be able to go inside one of them again . |
| 16 | She looked back and saw the man stop dithering before the houses , and cross further up the street , just before the cars took over again . |
| 17 | As Wycliffe left the house he looked back and saw the gaunt figure still at the window . |
| 18 | One would not have believed his grubby Lada capable of such manoeuvres as he coaxed from its grinding engine but , after a moment of horror , I sat back and enjoyed the ride . |
| 19 | Mr Patten sat back and enjoyed the show , as regards education policy he 's still thinking a lot and saying very little . |
| 20 | Miranda reached to peck him back and felt the smooth skin on his chin , smelled the lotion he used on his hair ( not bay rum , not like her father , but a sweeter perfume , limewater and rose ) . |
| 21 | Then he came back and filled the Flame-thrower with petrol . |
| 22 | Between these two extremes a mass of erratic talent clambered onto the boards , copied Johnny Rotten , delivered sixth-form poetry , threw the bottles back and accepted the spittle . |
| 23 | He placed the marinated chops and sausages on the grill then stood back and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the towel draped around his neck . |
| 24 | And we would n't let her have the points till she came back and finished the other twenty . |
| 25 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 26 | He revved the engine , and Fran stepped back and slammed the door with a touch more force than was really necessary , watching as he drove away without a backward glance . |
| 27 | She smiled back and said the coat I 'd chosen was really pretty . |
| 28 | if he , that in the sense that if he came back and said the revolution 's already happening , all we need to do is to get |
| 29 | Trent walked back and studied the footpath before remounting the motor cycle . |
| 30 | He switched off from the incident , lay back and analysed the day 's events . |