Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 2 | Cleveland County fire officer Bill Cooney has hit back at criticism of the service . |
| 3 | In some cases Dutton has gone back to these originals , and sometimes he has worked on the Griffith tapes . |
| 4 | DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion . |
| 5 | Osaka has fought back with a splurge of infrastructure projects , most notably a new international airport perched upon a man-made island . |
| 6 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 7 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 8 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 9 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 10 | Hamman had stood back then , and held up the tattoo above his right wrist . |
| 11 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 12 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 13 | Kyle had won back two strokes with birdies at the 15th and 16th , but Des O'Grady had lost a ball off his drive at the 17th . |
| 14 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 15 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 16 | Phoebe had not seen Alan since , though Sue had moved back again briefly later that winter , saddened and distressed by Alan 's disaffection . |
| 17 | Then there was the news that El Daba airfield was not being used , though Jellicoe had brought back a couple of German prisoners who freely volunteered the information that this was the most important of their forward airfields . |
| 18 | She had nagged at her mother for insisting on cooking everything herself , although she always did it , however formal the occasion or long the guest list , she had gone on and on until Mrs Roberts had snapped back in her turn , furiously . |
| 19 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 20 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 21 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 22 | Then if Jake has come back earlier , so much the better . |
| 23 | SIR Colin Cowdrey has rushed back early from Asia to take personal control of the Pakistan ball-tampering saga . |
| 24 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 25 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 26 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 27 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 28 | Turner had faced back towards the exit from the yard , but he hesitated , saying , ‘ I know what your game is , Doyle . |
| 29 | But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face . |
| 30 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |