Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mentioned to Jed that Nerina had a crush on him , and I 'm afraid it got back to her . ’ |
| 2 | Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back . |
| 3 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | She pulled a face , and ran her outstretched fingers through her long hair , pulling it out sideways from her head to that it fell back softly in the shape of a folding fan . |
| 5 | Blank and rugged it stared back at him , no more informative than the rest . |