Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he walked back to the guest house where Ranulf and Maltote were locked in a fierce game of dice . |
| 2 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 3 | so he went back on the night time , got the bags how embarrassing , he did it |
| 4 | Finally he drove back to the main road . |
| 5 | Yesterday he went back to the city to see if the voters to whom he spoke had changed their minds |
| 6 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 7 | Automatically he hauled back on the stick . |
| 8 | Then he looked back at the teacher . |
| 9 | Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father . |
| 10 | Then he looked back at the hole in the ground . |
| 11 | Then he looked back along the ship . |
| 12 | Doyle shook his head as he contemplated the mess , then he walked back to the table to take the supplies into the kitchen … |
| 13 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 14 | ‘ He then said ‘ I wo n't be a moment ’ and disappeared for his warm up then he walked back into the changing room , stripped off to the waist again , carried on his conversation and continued drinking his beer . ’ |
| 15 | He practised until seven o'clock , then he cycled back to the farm for supper . |
| 16 | Then he ran back towards the stack-yard gate . |
| 17 | Then he ran back along the bare wooden branch that hung across his cage and turning suddenly , raised his wings in the air and lunged forward towards Creggan again . |
| 18 | He vaguely saw the monster and then he ran back to the camp where he was camping , but he did n't describe |
| 19 | ‘ He was OSS , then in London at the time of Winter Garden , then he came back in the mid-Sixties . |
| 20 | Then he went back to the bathroom and turned off the taps . |
| 21 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 22 | Then he went back to the attack . |
| 23 | Then he went back to the coffee counter , where two girls were talking about pop singers . |
| 24 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |
| 25 | He pressed twice and heard the buzzer sounding deep inside the house , then he dived back into the hallway and past his own door . |
| 26 | Then he moved back towards the circle in the grass on the other side of the road . |
| 27 | Then he climbed back into the saddle and rode off on his grey : a small , sallow man in the red , green and white uniform of the chasseurs of the Guard . |
| 28 | Then he hurried back through the wood , down the field and along the road past the stream . |
| 29 | Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time . |
| 30 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |