Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] back " in BNC.

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1 Once my husband left me and went back to his ex-wife .
2 I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn .
3 He did his deep-breathing exercises ; evidently , like so much else in his life , ritual ; then smiled at me and jumped back twenty-four hours .
4 People would move around me and look back but no one seemed to care .
5 I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life .
6 But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] .
7 So saying , I left them and went back to my work on the machine .
8 I said ‘ Come in , ’ sat them down , listened and then talked and finally got rid of them and went back to my poem .
9 Colours and designs created by tiny scales , overlapping like tiles on a roof , come from pigments , or the effects of microscopic structures which split the light falling on them and reflect back only a part of it .
10 Nora left them and walked back to La Gracieuse on her own .
11 Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree .
12 ‘ What , spy on them and report back , d' you mean ? ’
13 The ambitious plans drawn up by Middlesbrough council will be passed to various departments which will work on them and report back in a year 's time .
14 You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage .
15 She opened them and threw back the shutters , letting light flood in .
16 It discusses government policy with them and reports back to the government .
17 putting folk there and come back , and putting them and coming back and he then he did , that was four loads he would have had you see and then had to take them all back home again .
18 He says he knows you and came back in case you wanted to see him . ’
19 I 've found you and come back to you . ’
20 I did actually say I was going to put a plan together for you and come back in two weeks but I mean
21 After that I have to leave you and get back to Florence . ’
22 Thank you and welcome back to White Hart Lane Peter ; I 've got with me United manager Brian Horton .
23 So , so if the , if the region come back to you and knock back Hermestone , er would you appeal ?
24 And when we 've repaid you and bought back Maran Hill , we shall live ever so quietly .
25 At the last moment she twisted away from him and ran back towards the orderlies .
26 We thanked him and cycled back home without further mishap .
27 Burns waved cheerfully to him and walked back to the main entrance .
28 Corbett tugged his cloak around him and strode back towards the priory building , not caring whether he shattered the peace of a convent where so many dark deeds had been committed .
29 I then went forward to the man on the floor er , handcuffed him and stepped back .
30 I stepped round him and went back to the house .
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