Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 2 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 3 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 4 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 5 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 6 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 7 | She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes . |
| 8 | The pound , which has enjoyed a decent run so far this week , was again under pressure and sank back against the mark and the dollar . |
| 9 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 10 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 11 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 12 | Dazed , he staggered back against the console and heard his shotgun clattering to the floor as it slipped from his nerveless fingers . |
| 13 | Harrison Ford stars as a former CIA man lured back into the fray after he becomes the target of the IRA . |
| 14 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 15 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 16 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 17 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 19 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 20 | We headed back to the dockyards and on to the approach road for the Blackwall tunnel . |
| 21 | But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May . |
| 22 | He remembered clinging frantically to the stirrup-leather , and being lifted back to the saddle-bow and comforted . |
| 23 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 24 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 25 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 26 | When they 'd finished their simple meal , obeying Michele 's instructions , Luce moved back to the couch while he cleared away the dishes and brought in coffee , glasses , and a crystal decanter . |
| 27 | The dark-haired vibrancer moved back to the couch and sat down on the floor again . |
| 28 | She moved back along the counter and , picking up a box of the sugared candy , she was about to scoop some into the scales when the shop bell rang again . |
| 29 | She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her . |
| 30 | He swam back into the bay and along the coast some hundred yards before swimming in again . |