Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 3 | He has even gone back to old techniques . |
| 4 | He has n't drifted back to his own place yet , eh ? |
| 5 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 6 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 7 | he has now gone back to Little , Brown lock , stock and backlist , and LB is mighty pleased . |
| 8 | He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom . |
| 9 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 10 | And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard . |
| 11 | And so you get an insight into his character , the way he thinks , what he feels now looking back in retrospect and just as important what he felt then . |
| 12 | A kiss where she raised her lips to his , and he did not hold back from moving his head down to hers , and , as her heart started to sing , so her arms went up and around him . |
| 13 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 14 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 15 | He did not come back until the evening , and then he was drunk . |
| 16 | Needless to say , he did not get back to her . |
| 17 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 18 | He got to thinking how disappointed his parents would be if he did n't go back to Fyn in time to meet his father 's cousin . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 20 | You , you know , you , you got over it but er he , he did n't re he did n't come back to you when perhaps he could 've done if he was feeling a bit er aggressive at the time . |
| 21 | He did n't come back for several hours , afraid of Mum 's temper but Dad said he would replace the mirror and this seemed to pacify her . |
| 22 | She says for some reason he did n't come back for it . |
| 23 | But they did n't see Jackie all day and he did n't come back with them again that night . |
| 24 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
| 25 | He did n't get back until … on , it must have been Tuesday of the following week . ’ |
| 26 | Er , and they wanted him to move out completely away somewhere , he was frightened he did n't get back in after . |
| 27 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 28 | He glanced towards Grégoire , knowing that happiness sprang from him ; he had brought Edouard love ; he had also given back to him a sense of purpose . |
| 29 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 30 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |