Example sentences of "[noun pl] back [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grinned , a loose and vulpine grin , drawing his lips back over his teeth , which were yellow and crooked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reluctantly Chuck turned his eyes back to his father . |
| 4 | Once again , eyes back to his official moustache |
| 5 | He pushed his spectacles back into his face with the middle finger of his right hand . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a special assignment , ’ Richie Lowell confided , his spectacles back on his nose , his mind back on business , ‘ and it 's straight from above . ’ |
| 7 | Storming into the restaurant where the Italian and Miss Maughan 's character were dining , he invented some story about having to keep her away from the paparazzi ( which he probably thinks is the coffee you buy in Venice ) and whisked her off her feet back to his place . |
| 8 | The duel could also help a career ; if this young French Lieutenant could take Sharpe 's horse and weapons back to his battalion he would be a hero . |
| 9 | And he 'd send messages back through his delivery boy ! |
| 10 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 11 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 12 | He put the things back into his wallet , except for the blue card informing him that he was to see Dr Pool in the morning . |
| 13 | He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house . |
| 14 | " There 's trouble brewing at home , " he said breathlessly , pushing his wire-frame glasses back onto his face . |
| 15 | He put the pages back in his pocket . |
| 16 | With the wife of his dreams back by his side , and the blessing of two healthy young sons , he now possessed treasures that no amount of money could buy . |
| 17 | One story is set at a computer show in Birmingham : a company representative visits the stand of a software firm , borrows its latest product , and runs off a copy in five minutes back at his own stand . |
| 18 | He traces his love of trains back to his great grandfather in the 1870's . |
| 19 | Magee nodded in silent acknowledgement and slipped the matches back into his pocket . |
| 20 | He often invited the girls back to his house , but most of them came only once . |
| 21 | He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep . |
| 22 | ‘ I cared about us making love , ’ he said , raking both hands back through his thick dark hair and looking up at her . |
| 23 | He let go of the doorknob and thrust his hands back into his pockets . |
| 24 | He straightened away from the stone urn and slipped his hands back into his trouser pockets . |
| 25 | Thacker put his hands back in his pockets and gave her a pitying look . |
| 26 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 27 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 28 | Now the heady scent of Californian Poppy filled the air and pushed the stale damp smell of the boy 's unwashed clothes back against his body . |
| 29 | He thrust the photographs back into his pocket and jerked round . |