Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … but , with their parents in hospital , I feel any such move would be counter-productive , ’ he 'd added curtly , dismissing the subject as he 'd turned back to the pile of papers in front of him . |
| 2 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 3 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 4 | Surprising that he 'd talked back to them , yes . |
| 5 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 6 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 7 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 8 | She 'd assumed he 'd driven back to London , but maybe he had n't . |
| 9 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
| 10 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
| 11 | He 'd gone back to his stew , and silence . |
| 12 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 13 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 14 | We 'd gone back for something for them to do something to it , it is the Metropolitan . |
| 15 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
| 16 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 17 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 18 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 19 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |