Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 2 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 3 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 4 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 5 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 6 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 7 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 8 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 9 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 10 | I let my mouth fall open and set my glass down heavily on the table , allowing my head to fall back against the chair and my eyes to close , in the imitation of unconsciousness . |
| 11 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 12 | ‘ When my wife comes back with the shopping we 're going to try out this new jib ; she 'll be back any minute . |
| 13 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 14 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 15 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 16 | Her sister jumped back from the letter-cage . |
| 17 | Frowning , she let her mind drift back to the events of two years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 19 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 20 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 21 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 22 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 23 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 24 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 25 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 26 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 27 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 28 | After losing most of its wartime recruits back to the universities and the law , the Service was determined to maintain its new influence , in Whitehall if not the world . |
| 29 | Its legend goes back to the book of Genesis . |
| 30 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |