Example sentences of "back [prep] his [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 2 | Paul would depart early in the morning , leaving Dinah still asleep ; by the time he got back after his day 's reading at the publishing house , had had a meal , and worked on his manuscript , Dinah was long gone . |
| 3 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 4 | If Dizzy the prodigal was to be received back onto his family 's old stamping-ground without too much in the way of resentment , her own job would be a lot easier to carry off . |
| 5 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 6 | NAUGHTY Kevin Corbett was almost back in his mother 's good books yesterday , a week after he sold her engagement ring for one pound . |
| 7 | The ‘ he ’ is Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray Liotta ) , a disgraced member of the Chicago team who threw the World Series back in his father 's time . |
| 8 | He was relying on the hope that he might , at least , become a servant back in his father 's house . |
| 9 | Erlich drew the sheet back over his friend 's wretched face . |
| 10 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 11 | I were n't gon na put myself out for them then he got up and stormed out and then he went back to his sister 's took his |
| 12 | George Borrow was to wander many roads before being invited back to his father 's home county . |
| 13 | Henceforth he supported York until Anselm 's death brought him back to his father 's policy of supporting the unity of the Church under the southern see , By this time , however , it was too late to alter the general swing away from overlordships such as that claimed by Canterbury . |
| 14 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 15 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 16 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 17 | Almost half of Edward 's sede vacante presentations were retrospective , some dating back to his grandfather 's reign , and most being based on fictitious entitlement ; considerable temptations were open to unscrupulous candidates , armed with dubious history , to challenge the rights of sitting tenants . |
| 18 | Indeed , if you go back to his grandfather 's generation , they go right underground , for Bill Larnach comes from the solid traditions of the Durham miners . |
| 19 | Their only son , also Philip , decided to come back to his mother 's home to live . |
| 20 | When Leach discovered Jacqueline was sleeping with Tommy he moved back to his mother 's house in Slough , and at Easter , 1989 , Tommy moved into Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 21 | He was then released on bail and , as is the custom , the police required conditions of his bail that he should not go back to his girlfriend 's address to prevent any possibility of any further offending . |