Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) .
2 There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could .
3 ‘ Yes , Dr Markham , I was , ’ she nodded then looked back at the other man .
4 She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her .
5 you can guarantee it she goes to shops about eleven o'clock , she do n't come back till one because she 's been talking on shops , that 's her routine you know ?
6 But she did not go back to the kitchen .
7 Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning .
8 She did not look back at Ursula or down into the valley , but trained her eyes forward , fixing them on the interior of the Mercedes and the dark shape of its occupant as , with every step , clarity threatened to break upon her vision .
9 She did not hurry back to the house .
10 There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’
11 She did n't go back to her room .
12 She did n't rush back to his table , but the next time she was passing by she stopped .
13 My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime .
14 She did n't come back for two days .
15 She did n't come back to Low Birk Hatt .
16 And it might worry Mark if she did n't come back till late .
17 Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock !
18 She did n't look back at him .
19 She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina .
20 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
21 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
22 In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her .
23 She had never gone back to the beach .
24 She had then come back past the stables to pay a visit to her father 's huge slobbering wolf hounds so the tidy boot prints did n't have a returning track beside them .
25 It all hurt , but at least she had now got back at him , and she did n't have to see his face to know he was furious .
26 She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting .
27 She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results .
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