Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 3 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 4 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bewildered and hurt at her lack of interest , too shy to ask what the trouble was , he had gone back to the garage completely mystified , and had spent the rest of the evening painting his jalopy electric blue . |
| 9 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 10 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 11 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 12 | When he had arrived back in the cold dawn that early morning after the night with Emily , it was to find his landlady Mrs McIntosh waiting , his valise and books by her , her face severe . |
| 13 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 14 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 15 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 16 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 17 | The thin man thrust whatever he had found back into the sack and hurriedly reknotted the neck . |
| 18 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 19 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 20 | When she 'd closed the case he had sunk back on the pillow , a thin smile on his face , his lips tinged with yellow . |