Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday , he swallowed his pride , banked Dysart 's cheque and purchased a car with most of what remained from the cash he had brought back from Rhodes . |
| 2 | The previous day he had started back to work , to be followed by this front-page exclusive . |
| 3 | From the start , as in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky is projecting a theoretical murderer , the difference being that Raskolnikov was an ex-student , only potentially an eternal student , because in the event he got pulled back out of theory into living life . |
| 4 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 5 | And every road he chose led back to Rome , |
| 6 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 7 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |
| 8 | Show Jackie in a minute all that guff about laughter Michael 's chest he 's got back of his . |
| 9 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 10 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 11 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 12 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 13 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |