Example sentences of "turned [adv] [conj] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head full of these questions , she turned wearily and went back into the kitchen . |
| 2 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 3 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 4 | Charlotte turned away and started back up the slope towards the road . |
| 5 | Disappointed , she turned away and slid back between the sheets . |
| 6 | She felt , rather than heard , how he turned smartly and loped back across the panelled hall towards the door , no doubt to drive the car round into the garage . |
| 7 | They turned quickly and looked back at the city . |
| 8 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |