Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
2 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
3 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
4 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
5 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
6 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
7 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
8 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
9 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
10 | Fergus had fallen back across the table and Taliesin and Fribble both moved to stand between him and the Lad . |
11 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
12 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
13 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
14 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
15 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
16 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
17 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |
18 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
19 | Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished . |
20 | A brief foray on to the upper deck , and Lindsey had retreated back into the warmth . |
21 | Jessamy had run back into the house . |
22 | Erlich came close to her , kneeling on the rug he knew that Harry had brought back from a fast run to Beirut . |
23 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
24 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
25 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
26 | Bertha had sat back with the satisfied air of having played a trump card , until suddenly her lip had quivered as tears filled her eyes . |
27 | But Steve had gone back to the match , his face rigid with anticipation . |
28 | Frankenstein had slumped back against a tree-trunk for support , his head lolling back as if he were about to collapse in a faint . |
29 | Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight . |
30 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |