Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 2 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 3 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 4 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 5 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 6 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 7 | He turned to go back along the gallery , then stopped and looked back at her . |
| 8 | And so , feeling faintly and inexplicably troubled , he turned to head back to the yard . |
| 9 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 10 | He began to walk back towards the house . |
| 11 | He decided to go back into the shed , but his muscles would not obey the orders of his mind . |
| 12 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 13 | He decided to get back between the covers , or under the covers . |
| 14 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 16 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 17 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 18 | He had to run back in the dark and make safe the Lewes bomb . |
| 19 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 20 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 21 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |