Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 2 | Daisy was about to say ‘ by women ’ , but hastily changed it to ‘ by members of the congregation as I was leaving , and I had to get back for Ethel 's heart . ’ |
| 3 | Hope I 'm back for Larry 's party . |
| 4 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 5 | The archer had to be someone who knew I was going to go back for Gareth 's camera . |
| 6 | As the train pulled out of the station she searched back for Moran 's face among the crowd and found it and waved . |
| 7 | Kiku adjusted her veil and rode sedately back towards Zurachina 's cart . |
| 8 | It was no secret the man had groomed Ewan Famber to perfection all those years ago , and it was too typical the new , perhaps-not-improved Ewan would eventually end up back under Roirbak 's wing . |
| 9 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 10 | She has come back with Hywel 's dinner . |
| 11 | When the feeling of menace stole back into Cassie 's mind , she was unprepared for it — resented it , even . |
| 12 | Perhaps he could bring himself to back into Karen 's bowl ? |
| 13 | Then a leaking gasket on the fuel header tank showed itself graphically as fuel was blown back into Bob 's face from the filler cap in front of the windscreen . |
| 14 | I follow her back into Jamie 's bedroom . |
| 15 | Not until the Kremlin signalled that times had changed could life be breathed back into Wallenberg 's heroism . |
| 16 | Behind Conker whinnied and plunged , then scrabbled forwards , his short legs beating a frantic rhythm , the mane blowing back into Michael 's face , stinging a little . |
| 17 | Morgan went back into Evans ' office , closed the door , marched back to the desk behind which |
| 18 | A little colour came back into Busacher 's face . |
| 19 | For the present , it must suffice to say that Eadmer 's report brings into Rufus 's reign a theme which is wholly lacking in Anselm 's letters , and we must ask whether Eadmer is not , here as elsewhere , reading back into Rufus 's reign the lessons which he and Anselm were to learn in the course of their joint exile . |
| 20 | Then the rampaging power slipped obediently back into Ari 's body and calm descended . |
| 21 | Some colour had come back into Jennifer 's face . |
| 22 | I go back into Marie 's room . |
| 23 | Which brought pride back into Creggan 's heart even though he was driven away , and made him even more determined to bring honour to the name of Wrath . |
| 24 | Those who do find their ten-year-olds coming back from friends ' birthday parties where the highlight was a showing of a grisly movie like Freddy 's Revenge . |
| 25 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 26 | The aim , after all , was not to arrest the man but to follow him and see if by that means they could uncover the line which ran back from Mordecai 's shop to the ultimate suppliers of Osman 's money . |
| 27 | So Lewis drove back from Parson 's Pleasure , back on to the Banbury Road , down St Giles ' , and then right at the lights into Beaumont Street . |
| 28 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 29 | There 's no going back from Grey 's capture — not until time has dulled the sting , at least , and made it possible to mention peace without being called a traitor by some city haberdasher in the commons . |
| 30 | She lifted her head from her arms and dragged her mind back from Luke 's kiss , his taste … |