Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 2 | On Saturday he fought back from 3-0 down to defeat Steve Davis in a thrilling semi final . |
| 3 | Vic says that 's what 's historically the case , and Matt says that 's what was in the script he read back in Dudesville North Dakota or wherever he hangs his hat and that 's what he 's going to play . |
| 4 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 5 | After winning the Berkhamsted he went back to his home club and picked up the Watson Trophy with a 69 . |
| 6 | Every few paces he glanced back across his shoulder . |
| 7 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 8 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 9 | In the third week of May he went back to Plumford to prepare for the journey . |
| 10 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 11 | At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory . |
| 12 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 13 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 14 | I had written to him in Edinburgh when he was in Belgium , to Belgium when he was in France and to France the very moment he arrived back in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 16 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 17 | Jesus Christ , when he er , went back to heaven he went back as a fe , as a glorified , but as a physical being . |
| 18 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 19 | When she left the room he sat back in his seat and grinned . |
| 20 | And leaping into the saddle he raced back to Grimspound , Nero at full stretch , the Devil laughing and snapping at his heels as he went . |
| 21 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 22 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 23 | He had one of her well-typed missives in his pocket the day he went back on his nostalgia crawl to Mouncy Street and Decimus Street and Paradise Street . |
| 24 | ‘ … 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 . ’ |
| 25 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 26 | After a while he turned back to Jo-Ann . |
| 27 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
| 28 | After a successful academic career he moved back to industry . |
| 29 | Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car . |
| 30 | And then with a desperate movement he drew back from her grasp , his breath rasping in his chest . |