Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 2 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 3 | What do they keep on going back to ? |
| 4 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 5 | They did not go back to ‘ living together ’ even in the purely conceptual sense of many academic couples they knew , separated by their jobs . |
| 6 | No , they did n't go back in the end . |
| 7 | He walks in front , holds back branches , waiting for her so that they do n't whip back in her face . |
| 8 | Yeah , they do n't go back till Tuesday do they ? |
| 9 | ‘ It says , ‘ They Take A Bite , But They Do n't Come Back For More ! ’ ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ If they do n't get back by Chait Dasai — if Bhawāni 's not here for her own festival — it 's a bad sign . |
| 11 | They do n't shoot back at you , my friend , I thought . |
| 12 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 13 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 14 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
| 15 | In the last analysis they wish always to go back to ‘ biological advantage ’ . |
| 16 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |