Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 3 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 4 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
| 5 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 6 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 7 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 8 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 9 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 10 | Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car . |
| 11 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 12 | In the afternoon he went back to the mill , and in the evening he studied his books and papers . |
| 13 | Without further ado he hurried back down the steps . |
| 14 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 15 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 16 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the time he got back to the field , all his belongings had gone . |
| 19 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After dinner he leaned back on the sofa , she sat upright across the room in a matching easy chair . |