Example sentences of "he [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 2 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 3 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 4 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 5 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 6 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 7 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't see him going back to the Council , ’ Dann said banteringly . |
| 9 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 10 | Sabrina watched him disappear back into the booth . |
| 11 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 12 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 13 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 14 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 15 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 16 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 17 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
| 18 | Owen had him taken back to the underground room . |
| 19 | I was going to ask you to help me to make him come back to the warren . |
| 20 | She did n't actually hear him come back into the room ; it was just the feeling of being watched that alerted her to his presence , and she turned her head warily . |
| 21 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 22 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 23 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 24 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 25 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 26 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 27 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 28 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 29 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 30 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |