Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , ’ he turned her neatly and propelled her back into the living room . |
| 3 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 4 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 5 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 6 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 7 | Smiling , Nicolo put his arm around her shoulders and led her back to where they 'd left the Ferrari . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 9 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 10 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 11 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 12 | She took off the snazzy shades she had taken from the preacherman they 'd jump-rammed this morning , and passed them back to Andrew Jean . |
| 13 | Corbett studied the document and passed it back to Benstede . |
| 14 | Ted opened it , wrote , ‘ I have ’ , folded it and passed it back to her . |
| 15 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 16 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 17 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 18 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 19 | MOTORIST Janet Glover put her new £10,000 Toyota Corolla in for its first service — and got it back with an unwanted extra . |
| 20 | His score was later duplicated by Carl Watts ( Hawkstone ) , who notched five birdies and got it back in 31 . |
| 21 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 22 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
| 23 | The conference decided the problems of ‘ functionally complex ’ compounds needed further study and referred it back to the commission . |
| 24 | Did a year and a half there and then er promoted me and moved me back to Newark . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell you what ? ’ he asked as he hastily clamped her hand still and moved it back to his chest . |
| 26 | Harry grabbed her hand and jerked her back into his arms . |
| 27 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 28 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 29 | He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses . |
| 30 | She swayed slightly and Stephen took her arm and helped her back to the coach . |