Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once my husband left me and went back to his ex-wife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! ] . |
| 4 | So saying , I left them and went back to my work on the machine . |
| 5 | I said ‘ Come in , ’ sat them down , listened and then talked and finally got rid of them and went back to my poem . |
| 6 | Nora left them and walked back to La Gracieuse on her own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage . |
| 9 | She opened them and threw back the shutters , letting light flood in . |
| 10 | He says he knows you and came back in case you wanted to see him . ’ |
| 11 | And when we 've repaid you and bought back Maran Hill , we shall live ever so quietly . |
| 12 | He had not kissed her or looked back , just sprinted across the snow . |
| 13 | At the last moment she twisted away from him and ran back towards the orderlies . |
| 14 | We thanked him and cycled back home without further mishap . |
| 15 | Burns waved cheerfully to him and walked back to the main entrance . |
| 16 | Corbett tugged his cloak around him and strode back towards the priory building , not caring whether he shattered the peace of a convent where so many dark deeds had been committed . |
| 17 | I then went forward to the man on the floor er , handcuffed him and stepped back . |
| 18 | I stepped round him and went back to the house . |
| 19 | She left him and went back to the landing to listen . |
| 20 | Pam smiled contentedly at him and settled back in her seat , reassured by Curtis 's confidence , and the fact that he 'd be part of the firm now . |
| 21 | He returned the map to the shelf in front of him and leaned back in his seat . |
| 22 | He held him down one-handed , smiling at his heavings and pantings as he struggled to break free ; but as soon as he tossed the straining wrists away from him and sat back on his heel to rise , Harry made a furious lunge for the hilt of the dagger Isambard himself had disdained to draw . |
| 23 | He glared at Conroy without seeing him and charged back into No. 4 , slamming the door . |
| 24 | The Marshal nodded to him and started back down the ill-lit , dusty staircase . |
| 25 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |
| 26 | ‘ Leave it with me , ’ he said shortly when she laid the chart on the desk in front of him and stood back . |
| 27 | He found the apartment and opened the door for her and stepped back to let her pass . |
| 28 | She closed the door softly behind her and went back to her own room next door . |
| 29 | He turned away from her and went back to his business . |
| 30 | The laughter was suddenly gone and a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth as she closed the door after her and leant back against it . |