Example sentences of "it [vb past] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 2 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 3 | Moreover , when this was done it led back to the study of linear Diophantine equations , a problem that Smith had already solved ( Box A ) . |
| 4 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 5 | The taxi , when it came back to the street , would be crawling because the driver would be looking for the number . |
| 6 | It will appear suddenly in the pocket of a jacket you have n't worn since it came back from the cleaners . |
| 7 | It came back in a form against which there could be no defence . |
| 8 | It came back in the form of the Cult of Slaanesh . |
| 9 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 10 | It swung back against the wall . |
| 11 | It leapt back into the air with an explosive flutter of wing and tail , warbling consternation , signalling alarm . |
| 12 | It shrank back against the wall , edging towards the door . |
| 13 | I suddenly hit the grey thing and it fell back against the tree . |
| 14 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 15 | But in fact , I think it went back to the District at the er , price that it had |
| 16 | The thing is , we ordered it went back in the afternoon and it was cut and put on the side , I had to have it did n't I ? |
| 17 | What the government gave away with one hand , however , it took back with the other . |
| 18 | The front door was heavy and solid , and it pushed back against the pressure of a slow-closing spring . |