Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let her go back to that flat . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 3 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 4 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 5 | She let herself press back against him . |
| 6 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 7 | I bent my knees a little to put on the shoulder-strap and left him watching me move back onto the road . |
| 8 | And even as he gave up , as he let himself lean back against the wall , he was holding on , knowing he had backed down and it was over , but doing it gradually so we would n't see the change come over him . |
| 9 | He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition . |
| 10 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 11 | I was going to ask you to help me to make him come back to the warren . |