Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] back " in BNC.

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1 He would go himself and bring back some news before they even knew that he had gone .
2 Remember what you 're here for , he told himself and turned back to his audience .
3 Satisfied that there had been no accident , he cursed loudly to himself and climbed back inside .
4 Nigel would have liked to discharge himself and travel back with Eleanor right away .
5 The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between .
6 Once my husband left me and went back to his ex-wife .
7 I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn .
8 He did his deep-breathing exercises ; evidently , like so much else in his life , ritual ; then smiled at me and jumped back twenty-four hours .
9 People would move around me and look back but no one seemed to care .
10 I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life .
11 But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] .
12 So saying , I left them and went back to my work on the machine .
13 I said ‘ Come in , ’ sat them down , listened and then talked and finally got rid of them and went back to my poem .
14 Colours and designs created by tiny scales , overlapping like tiles on a roof , come from pigments , or the effects of microscopic structures which split the light falling on them and reflect back only a part of it .
15 Nora left them and walked back to La Gracieuse on her own .
16 Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree .
17 ‘ What , spy on them and report back , d' you mean ? ’
18 The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time .
19 You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage .
20 She opened them and threw back the shutters , letting light flood in .
21 It discusses government policy with them and reports back to the government .
22 putting folk there and come back , and putting them and coming back and he then he did , that was four loads he would have had you see and then had to take them all back home again .
23 I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged
24 He says he knows you and came back in case you wanted to see him . ’
25 I 've found you and come back to you . ’
26 I did actually say I was going to put a plan together for you and come back in two weeks but I mean
27 After that I have to leave you and get back to Florence . ’
28 Thank you and welcome back to White Hart Lane Peter ; I 've got with me United manager Brian Horton .
29 So , so if the , if the region come back to you and knock back Hermestone , er would you appeal ?
30 And when we 've repaid you and bought back Maran Hill , we shall live ever so quietly .
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