Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ruth arrived at the Rope Walk on Monday morning , she felt as if she were stepping back in time . |
| 2 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 3 | On the twenty fifth of April nineteen eighty eight she was transferred back to Hinchinbrook hospital . |
| 4 | She was flicked back against him , clamped closer with one powerful arm , and as he looked down at her , hard and intent , he made brief , rhythmic movements , flexing chest and thigh muscles to make her slide down his body , her heart hammering … he was practically making love to her on the dance-floor . |
| 5 | She was looking back over her own life . |
| 6 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 7 | She was pressed back into her seat as the craft began to speed up . |
| 8 | She was pressed back against the seat as Fergus accelerated again . |
| 9 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 10 | Abruptly the dream finished and she was plunged back into reality . |
| 11 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 12 | Any lingering dreams died and she was propelled back into her normal character speedily . |
| 13 | She was sent back to Paris to be plucked , groomed , coiffed , gowned , a " la " mode , hair by carita , dressed by Dior , shoes , jewellery , gloves and lingerie form all the best houses . |
| 14 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 15 | She was flown back from Zimbabwe at the weekend for treatment at Newcastle 's Royal Victoria Infirmary . |
| 16 | As I understood it she was flying back to the States tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 18 | She was led back to her cell . |
| 19 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 20 | Somewhere below , only a few minutes away but in another world completely , she was running back to the house , Simon in hot pursuit . |
| 21 | She was going back to the knacker 's . |
| 22 | Her marriage had ended the night when she told Neil Fraser she was going back to Ireland to look for her brother . |
| 23 | And she said no , she could not make tomorrow , she was going back to England tomorrow , which was not true , but true enough . |
| 24 | She was going back to her father 's house to show people what she had written in her schoolbooks about them . |
| 25 | Her mother suspected she was going back to Portugal after cutting short her daughter 's recent holiday there because of the romance . |
| 26 | Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office . |
| 27 | Tight-lipped , she told him that she was going back to Arden post-haste . |
| 28 | But Mrs Gotobed said nothing more and when Carrie did look , she was lying back in her chair with her head fallen sideways . |
| 29 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 30 | For a moment , he thought that his wildest dreams were about to come true : she was staring back at him in a deep , soulful way that he was sure meant love . |