Example sentences of "he [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ he whispered back . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ he whispered back , with the faintest of faint smiles . |
| 4 | He whispered back , ‘ You go . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ he whispered back . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I did n't , ’ he whispered back . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope not either , Pip , ’ he whispered back . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm a Time Lord , remember ? ’ he whispered back , keen to make sure none of the others overheard him . |
| 9 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ he whispered back . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no thank you then , ’ he whispered back , ‘ I 'll walk . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course she is , ’ he whispered back . |
| 13 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 14 | As I approached the animal 's rear end he laid back his ears , whickered and began to caper around . |
| 15 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 16 | He beamed back at them . |
| 17 | He plunged back into his contemplation of the engine . |
| 18 | He plunged back into his work , forgetting about her before she was through the door . |
| 19 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 20 | But at night when he sleeps , he drifts back 20 miles . |
| 21 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 22 | Thereupon he turns back irresolutely and returns to his house only to find , as a fresh disappointment , that his wife is not there . |
| 23 | The evening sun is low in the sky with its rays almost horizontal , piercing the dhāmi 's eyes as he turns back to face it . |
| 24 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 25 | He turns back and tries to stop her , but fails . |
| 26 | He turns back to face the front as we head through the late-morning traffic . |
| 27 | He turns back to Howard . |
| 28 | He turns back to her . |
| 29 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 30 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |