Example sentences of "back [prep] his [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan took him back into his bedroom and walked up and down with him mechanically , trying to soothe him . |
| 2 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 3 | Now Evans got back into his car and drove round to Connon 's house . |
| 4 | Peter got back into his car and started the engine . |
| 5 | He slipped the knife and the corkscrew back into his pocket and walked away , turning out of the yard and into St Martin 's Street again . |
| 6 | He pushed his handkerchief back into his pocket and looked across at his deputy , Sergei Kolchinsky , a Russian in his early fifties who had become an invaluable member of the team since joining UNACO from the KGB four years earlier . |
| 7 | Sheldukher slipped the laser pistol back into his pocket and substituted the black square . |
| 8 | He thrust the photographs back into his pocket and jerked round . |
| 9 | Grimly Delaney slipped the pipe back into his pocket and nodded . |
| 10 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 11 | He sat back in his pew and looked around the church which the indefatigable ladies of the WI had transformed with flowers and holly sprays . |
| 12 | He settled back in his armchair and put his feet on the coffee-table . |
| 13 | He leaned back in his armchair and regarded her harshly . |
| 14 | When she left the room he sat back in his seat and grinned . |
| 15 | He raised a mocking dark brow as he sat back in his seat and crossed one long leg over the other , and Fran bit back a sudden urge to snap an answer at him . |
| 16 | He slumped back in his seat and stared resentfully through the windscreen . |
| 17 | She sat opposite him as he leaned back in his seat and observed her through gold-rimmed spectacles , and she still felt uneasy with this man . |
| 18 | With a sigh of impatience Jake leaned back in his seat and ran his fingers through his thick dark hair . |
| 19 | But the Substitute caught his movement and , with a quick sidelong smile and a rueful glance at the offending object , he leaned back in his seat and said solemnly : ‘ It 's my only vice . ’ |
| 20 | Jake sat back in his seat and surveyed her critically . |
| 21 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 22 | He lay back in his seat and closed his eyes . |
| 23 | Ludovico lay back in his seat and smiled . |
| 24 | The old gentleman sat back in his seat and opened the letter . |
| 25 | Now he stretched back in his chair and said : ‘ This proposed job — rumoured job , I should say — I suppose we 're entitled to ask whether it has been formally offered to you yet ? |
| 26 | He leaned back in his chair and breathed heavily . |
| 27 | Then the older man lay back in his chair and looked at Dorian with half-closed eyes . |
| 28 | Certainly , as he leaned back in his chair and looked across at her , there was no sign of coolness in the dark eyes . |
| 29 | Nicolo leaned back in his chair and steepled his fingers against his lips . |
| 30 | John sat back in his chair and made a pyramid with his hands in front of his face . |