Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 2 | Now , as the light leached back into the world , he saw the door open at the head of the steps and a figure appear . |
| 3 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 4 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 5 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 6 | Cobalt drove back to the Villa Fiesole . |
| 7 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 8 | Angela 's mummy came back with the red mack . |
| 9 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 10 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 11 | On we went past the grandeur of Mount Edith Cavell and Castle Mountain , through Banff and Lake Louise to Kicking Horse Pass and the Great Divide , where rivers on one side flowed back to the Atlantic , and those on the other side ran west to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 12 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 13 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 14 | His mind swung back to the Forest he had left so many years before . |
| 15 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 16 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 17 | He laid the cross down and his mind flew back to the day his sisters were born … . |
| 18 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 19 | Bonanza lounged back against the seat . |
| 20 | The mess tin went back into the cupboard . |
| 21 | The Superintendent leant back in the chair in the diocesan office conference room , Tallboy sitting opposite . |
| 22 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 23 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 24 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 25 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 26 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 27 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 28 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 29 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 30 | His mind reeled back from the effort . |