Example sentences of "and he [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote what must have been the one of the shortest letters of all time , and he wrote back to the editor of The Times and he said , dear sir , in answer to your question what is wrong with the world |
| 2 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 3 | He became very dissatisfied and he came back to the U K. |
| 4 | And he went back to the bin . |
| 5 | The dinner , Maxim decided , would be best remembered as ‘ nourishing ’ , and he went back to the ante-room to do something about the taste of it . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills . |
| 7 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 8 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 9 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 10 | The situation became funnier and funnier and he lay back on the bed shaken by deep gasps of laughter . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest . |
| 12 | It 's a fix , thought Zen , and he edged back against the wall . |
| 13 | ‘ Dio mio , ’ he growled , and he leaned back against the wall , folded his arms across his chest , and prepared to wait out the boredom of the long moments ahead . |
| 14 | And he turned back to the Toyota , reaching in to the rear seat and coming out with the blasting plunger . |
| 15 | But his mouth suddenly tightened and he turned back to the sterilizer in dignified silence . |
| 16 | He was more in command of his emotions now , and he turned back into the room . |