Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 2 | We 'd better go back to the burrow . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car . |
| 5 | He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom . |
| 6 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 7 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 8 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 9 | You 'd better come back to the farmhouse too , Seb . |
| 10 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 12 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Doctor . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You … you 'd better get back to the restaurant … |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd better get back in the car . |
| 20 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 21 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 22 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man . |
| 24 | And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard . |
| 25 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 26 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 27 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 28 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 29 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 30 | By the Middle Ages the river had gradually cut back through the neck of land at this side of the rise , until it cut right through to where it runs now . |