Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 2 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 3 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 4 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 5 | The pound , which has enjoyed a decent run so far this week , was again under pressure and sank back against the mark and the dollar . |
| 6 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 7 | Dazed , he staggered back against the console and heard his shotgun clattering to the floor as it slipped from his nerveless fingers . |
| 8 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 9 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 10 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 12 | He remembered clinging frantically to the stirrup-leather , and being lifted back to the saddle-bow and comforted . |
| 13 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 14 | The dark-haired vibrancer moved back to the couch and sat down on the floor again . |
| 15 | She moved back along the counter and , picking up a box of the sugared candy , she was about to scoop some into the scales when the shop bell rang again . |
| 16 | She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her . |
| 17 | He swam back into the bay and along the coast some hundred yards before swimming in again . |
| 18 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 19 | Once he actually fainted in the mud and had to be carried back to the house and revived with cold water . |
| 20 | This softly layered bob has been teased back from the face and dressed with wax |
| 21 | There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer . |
| 22 | It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it . |
| 23 | I picture the old man hopping and pacing to his cottage , finding the paper , finding the passage , transcribing it , bobbing back to the club and slipping the note under my door , in order to set the record straight ; I find myself close to tears . |
| 24 | does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something . |
| 25 | Slowly she wandered back into the kitchen and started to unpack the boxful of food . |
| 26 | I wandered back into the city and even thought of revisiting my old haunts but , near Whitefriars , a counterfeit man recognised me . |
| 27 | Shep , apparently well satisfied , wandered back over the grass and collapsed in a cool patch where an apple tree threw its shade over the grass ; head on paws he waited in comfort for his next victim , |
| 28 | Chewing on the fish-meat , Masklin wandered back to the control-room and offered some of the food to Angalo . |
| 29 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 30 | Bragg wandered back to the living-room and sat in one of the big armchairs . |