Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 2 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 3 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 4 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 5 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 6 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 7 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 8 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 9 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 10 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 11 | Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car . |
| 12 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 13 | Gritting his teeth he lay back in the chair and forced himself to relax . |
| 14 | In the afternoon he went back to the mill , and in the evening he studied his books and papers . |
| 15 | Several times he went back to the spot where he had hidden the sack as though unable to believe it had gone . |
| 16 | Without further ado he hurried back down the steps . |
| 17 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 18 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 19 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 20 | Then he felt resentful for being made to feel guilty , so that by the time he got back to the Questura all the benefits of his walk had been cancelled out . |
| 21 | By the time he got back to the field , all his belongings had gone . |
| 22 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 23 | By the time he came back into the sitting-room , carrying a couple of tumblers , Lisa had seated herself nervously in one of the armchairs . |
| 24 | After dinner he leaned back on the sofa , she sat upright across the room in a matching easy chair . |
| 25 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |