Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very unhappy , but I came back to France , to Paris . |
| 2 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 3 | ‘ I did , but I came back . ’ |
| 4 | But I went back there just the other day and I noticed the ground is starting to hump up again . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't know what the hell I said but I went back and did it . |
| 6 | I went back , not to see the same people , but I went back , erm , on a a family holiday . |
| 7 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 8 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 9 | But I got back safely . |
| 10 | Mama made me go to school , but I crept back home just before noon . |
| 11 | But I held back . |
| 12 | But I reported back to the office on Monday morning . |
| 13 | But you came back . |
| 14 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 15 | Grizel Huntley reached out to comfort her but she forced back her chair and fled , clutching her handbag and napkin , leaving her mother with the ruins of lunch . |
| 16 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 17 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 18 | But she fell back , reading in both Harold 's eyes and Felicity 's an unstoppable blood lust . |
| 19 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |
| 20 | At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining . |
| 21 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 22 | Irene Norton hurried to her front door , but she looked back . |
| 23 | ‘ But she came back ? ’ |
| 24 | But she came back |
| 25 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 26 | She had the insane desire to tell all that to this man , but she bit back the words . |
| 27 | But she bit back the words . |
| 28 | ‘ From my point of view it was like a child climbing up on a wall to look in but she rushed back and said : ‘ No , I ca n't do it , ’ and started crying in my arms . |
| 29 | He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner . |
| 30 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |