Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
| 2 | John Lucero stayed around so long everyone thought he was a local until he went back to the States . |
| 3 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 4 | He told the gatekeeper to keep vigil while he went back to the station for assistance . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 6 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 7 | I spent some time with him after he drove back into the pit-lane and he was very categorical about his decision : ‘ It is simply not worth it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I do not know whether he went back to the château on his own . |
| 9 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 10 | Transfixed by the sudden intensity of his gaze before he turned back to the Empress , she was totally unprepared for what happened next . |
| 11 | He shot a quick look sideways at her before he headed back to the road . |
| 12 | Ah thought oor Damian was gonny burst a gut laughin' when he cam back fae the school and tellt us whit Miss Mackenzie had had tae pit in the register , the day the incomers signed on . |
| 13 | When he got back into the kitchen the cat , finally courageous in its search for food , was sitting in the corner . |
| 14 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 15 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 16 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 17 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 18 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 19 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |
| 20 | Charles looked a mess when he got back to the car , but Frances made no comment . |
| 21 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 22 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 23 | ‘ I think Yorick wrote that whole page when he got back from the party . |
| 24 | When he went back into the recording studio , the results sounded like painful attempts at self-parody or worse . |
| 25 | When he went back into the room , she got her word in first . |
| 26 | Mum says he should have shut the door when he went back into the garage and he would n't have been followed . |
| 27 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |
| 28 | When he went back to the track , Johnson was half the size he was in Seoul . |
| 29 | It was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson , and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 30 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |