Example sentences of "he [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it 's better than the way 'e 's bin since 'e got back from France ? |
| 2 | Wilson could only nod her head and turn with him to go back . |
| 3 | Mariana beat on his shoulders , screaming at him to go back . |
| 4 | Maybe the very atmosphere itself was telling him to go back . |
| 5 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 6 | Sister Marcus has finally been able to persuade him to go back to his club for a short rest . ’ |
| 7 | Whatever the risk , she must go to him and tell him to go back . |
| 8 | He consulted the West African National Secretariat : they urged him to go back . |
| 9 | Alexander MacDondald of Boisdale , the Highland chief who met him on arrival , begged him to go back to Europe . |
| 10 | When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear . |
| 11 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 13 | Yet she did n't want him to go back to Australia thinking so badly of her . |
| 14 | There was a hope that we could persuade him to go back , ‘ turn ’ him , if you like . |
| 15 | He kept telling him to go back to being a serious actor . |
| 16 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 17 | ‘ Dr Henry is extremely short-sighted and as he bent down to try to find them , he was punched a second time , which caused him to fall back and land on a bench , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 18 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 19 | 4 The force of the fan strike to the attacker 's throat causes him to fall back . |
| 20 | Though when , having ousted him , thoughts of him crept back in again , she grew impatient with herself , and took herself off for a walk around town . |
| 21 | He decided that for him to sit back and imagine , to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas , was an actual temptation . |
| 22 | The whole responsibility rests with Alain and I am pleased to see him here , getting a few days ’ break , although I imagine that Sunday night will see him speeding back to Paris , whatever we decide to do . |
| 23 | ‘ Come on , Will , ’ said Zach , seeing him hang back . |
| 24 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 25 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 26 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 27 | Modigliani 's family urged him to come back to Livorno too but his work , his world , was now in Paris . |
| 28 | I want to persuade him to come back to France . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Tell him to come back this afternoon , or tomorrow — or next week … or something . |
| 30 | But when you do , you 'd better be prepared for him to come back and hit you on your arms , your chest , that big belly of yours and finally the chin . |