Example sentences of "[pron] turned back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a pain , ’ I said to his turned back . |
| 2 | I turned back to see what was wrong . |
| 3 | I turned back to my accounts , saying : ‘ Merely condensation , I believe , Miss Kenton . ’ |
| 4 | With that I turned back to my papers . |
| 5 | I turned back to my business , but Miss Kenton remained in the doorway observing me . |
| 6 | I turned back to seventeenth-century France . |
| 7 | As I turned back , I regretted not having asked the driver if he had seen our Land Rover . |
| 8 | I turned back . |
| 9 | Then I turned back to see which direction he was going , and he 'd disappeared . |
| 10 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 11 | I turned back under them , and they all overshot me . |
| 12 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 13 | Sadly I turned back the pages and returned the ledger to Miss Louise 's lap . |
| 14 | But each time I turned back . |
| 15 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 16 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 17 | I turned back , running hard now . |
| 18 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
| 19 | I turned back to Rachel still sitting peacefully in her seat , sipping her drink . |
| 20 | I turned back to my plate , registering as I did so that Geoff Tulloch , who was with a group of his data-processing colleagues at a nearby table , had noticed our interest . |
| 21 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 22 | I turned back to the phone . |
| 23 | But first things first , and while Duncan headed back to town with the VW riding piggyback on his truck , I turned back towards Maidstone and the hospital . |
| 24 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 25 | I turned back to Sorrel and leaned forward so we eyeballed each other . |
| 26 | Jotan indicated the second staircase , a precipitous exit which turned back from the landing and passed through the wall against which the props for the staging were supported . |
| 27 | At the 8th , which turned back against the wind , his hook was accentuated and cost him strokes . |
| 28 | She turned back to face me . |
| 29 | She turned back into the bed as a sound came from old Donald 's mouth . |
| 30 | But when she turned back to her mother again , his face resumed its worried , searching frown of concentration , his ear attuned below the level of conversation to the pain and weariness in her voice . |