Example sentences of "would [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had finished his meal , when he had collected his guard from the hard chair by the entrance , then he would stride back to the Haifa Street Housing Project , and he would chew on the pistachio nuts that were loose in his trouser pocket , and he would write to his mother . |
| 2 | To measure sincerity in weapons proved very difficult , and so , from time to time , the American delegation would fall back on the mantra of peace , peace to which only Iraq was the obstacle , peace in which all these obsessions about the latest arms and the best would be redundant . |
| 3 | From time to time Sherif 's woolly old head , loosely wrapped in a dirty headdress , would fall back against the fly-speckled surface of the remaining quarter of a red sign . |
| 4 | From time to time she would glance back into the room , her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma . |
| 5 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
| 6 | Then Rachel would flit back along the alleyways to Richmond Palace . ’ |
| 7 | Suitable scenes of red-faced hilarity would occur back at the office as someone always tipped off the entire staff to be ready at the front door . |
| 8 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 9 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 10 | A spokesman said the inspector would report back to the boy 's father , Bernard Grainger , of Melland Street . |
| 11 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 12 | Lexandro would fire back at the figure mistakenly … |
| 13 | Sure it would bound back towards the green — a wide |
| 14 | At night when his mother was asleep , he would creep back to the computer to send messages . |
| 15 | We were troubled at how Frank would cope back in the big world . |
| 16 | When she had the sound of the sparse traffic in her ears she would sit down and rest , then she would walk back by the track . |
| 17 | trying to turn the tables again so that he would stop feeling uncomfortable and Starke would go back on the defensive . |
| 18 | Whenever he thought about this in later years , his memory would go back to the Cuddesdon time and the shock of seeing a House of Commons pretending that it knew how people ought to say their prayers . |
| 19 | But then it would go back to the usual music , the old pictures would go up again and it would be back to the black paintwork . |
| 20 | She would go back to the lodgings , lie down on the lumpy bed and rest , and try again tomorrow . |
| 21 | Even so , I would go back to the exciting clamour of Cairo tomorrow . |
| 22 | There was the man who had been with him and taken the briefcase from the hotel room and who in the morning would go back to the Golani Brigade stationed on the Lebanese border and who would be chided by his fellow officers for having taken leave while the military workload was intense . |
| 23 | Andrew would go back to the bright lights of the capital and she , Benedicta , would ensure that Topaz was kept too busy to think about things which could break her heart . |
| 24 | Soon Diana and Mary would leave Moor House to return to the wealthy families in the south , where they were both governesses , and St John would go back to the vicar 's house in Morton , with Hannah , his housekeeper . |
| 25 | But she never dared ask him , for fear he would tell her ) — the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria , who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns . |
| 26 | Clare , erm would go back to the office , you you or Phyllis or Joyce I mean preferably Phyllis would sit down with her and say , Right , Clare , what have you learned ? |
| 27 | She would go back to the shrine . |
| 28 | He would drag that bloody friar from his stars and they would go back to the Springall mansion and this time demand answers to their questions . |
| 29 | The Town Clerk 's just pointed out that their tape recorder 's run out and wondered if you would go back to the start and work through all that again . |
| 30 | And I was afraid that whatever I say would go back to the and if they hear this they will punish me . |