Example sentences of "back to his [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | got back to his mark and we 're going to have three slips , Lewis gone to join the slips , so it 's er three slips and the gully , as waits for this one , packing were the up comes Lawrence now past Dickie Bird , bowls to him , well pitched up and he played a rather streaky stroke really , and he turns it away down to square Tufnell is down there , fields the ball , throws back quite nicely , he fielded very well , let's say that and one run goes on the total , er so that at the moment three hundred and four runs are needed and it 's about three point nine seven the required rate . |
| 2 | The man 's tongue came back to his lip and he made a series of little whispered sounds , huss , huss , huss ; his laugh . |
| 3 | Let him take a favourable tale back to his abbot when he leaves us tomorrow . |
| 4 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
| 5 | and he went straight back to his study and I thought I 'd go and see him because my parents had gone |
| 6 | He got himself back to his flat and he turned the lights on in every room . |
| 7 | Ellis said he did not know if the girl took clients back to his flat and he would have ‘ gone up the wall ’ if she did . |
| 8 | The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain . |