Example sentences of "back [prep] [pron] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senga blinked back tears , " he told me he loved me and that he 'd come back for me when he 'd made his fortune and could afford to take me away . " |
| 2 | Tony thought the man was coming back for him because he 'd squirted water at him so he hid , but the man waved to Denise and she waved back . |
| 3 | With a slow thoughtful smile he moved it back towards her and she snatched it from his hand . |
| 4 | It fell back towards us and I caught the filmy ash on another plate . |
| 5 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 6 | She leaned back against him and he kissed her neck where the red hairs draggled dispiritedly from her chignon . |
| 7 | I was going to take them both back with me if you did n't turn up , I was going to get us fish and chips as a treat — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You think Newley checked back with him before he went to the cottage ? ’ |
| 9 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 10 | Yeah got a letter back from her and she seemed quite pleased to have the letter but she also started by I 've been surprised by the amount of interest shown s si since I went on . |
| 11 | Down here he was kwai again , trusting to his instincts as kwai , and , as if sensing this , men moved back from him as he passed . |
| 12 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 13 | My memory is n't what it was , although I daresay your names would come back to me if we waited a bit . ’ |
| 14 | Ash turned back to me as we followed , and muttered , ‘ He 's a pianist , is n't he ? ’ |
| 15 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 16 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
| 17 | The incident came back to me as I sat in nay room in St Joan 's food reading Black 's Veterinary Dictionary . |
| 18 | But the new bloke sent it back to me and it went on to win six races , and I felt so sick for the lads . |
| 19 | The strange conversation came back to him while he scraped three days ' stubble from his face . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 21 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 22 | I gave it back to him and he took some , then he gave it back to me . |
| 23 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 24 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 25 | As she began each one , Mum 's words came back to her and she felt her cheeks growing hot . |
| 26 | He turned his face back to her and she shook as if with a sudden , electric shock . |
| 27 | Susan hoped the skill would come back to her if it came to guns . |
| 28 | A tell-tale phrase came back to her as she ran over the dew-wet marsh grass : The White Girl 's Grave . |
| 29 | Miss Philimore 's self-satisfied tones came back to her as she fumbled with the tiny envelope . |
| 30 | He would only be able to find his way back to her when he managed , for once in his life , to be honest about what he really felt and believed . |