Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 11 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 12 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The majority of these had probably escaped back across the marsh , they thought ; indeed many had never been engaged . |
| 15 | In the pasture behind Sharpe the Prussian horsemen were making a line to face the remaining Dragoons who , outnumbered , had cautiously pulled back towards the skyline . |
| 16 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |
| 17 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 18 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 19 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |