Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 5 | Shelley too leaped to his feet , shrieking , and knocked his chair over , so that Mary came running back into the room . |
| 6 | They seemed to stretch back into the hillside as if they might , at some stage , cease to become manmade buildings of stone and wood and brick and become ancient caves ; tunnels that would penetrate deep into the earth 's core . |
| 7 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
| 8 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
| 9 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 10 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
| 11 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 12 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 13 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 14 | I began to climb back into the limo . |
| 15 | He decided to go back into the shed , but his muscles would not obey the orders of his mind . |
| 16 | Beside her , Ray Plummer was struggling to wind spaghetti around his fork but it kept falling back into the dish . |
| 17 | The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel . |
| 18 | But after this it was United who took the initiative as they sought to get back into the game . |
| 19 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 20 | Daak had jumped back into the cabin . |
| 21 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 22 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 23 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 24 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 25 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 26 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 27 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 28 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 29 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 30 | A brief foray on to the upper deck , and Lindsey had retreated back into the warmth . |