Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he 'd seen Buzz safely on the plane to Nice , he planned to drive back to London , where he would telephone Annabel in New York before seeing Miranda . |
| 2 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 3 | They more or less called him a fool when he tried to change back into whatever it was our current whatever it was and if that 's the case erm Hungar Hungarians are holding on to this two thousand pound , it 's surety is n't it ? |
| 4 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 5 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 8 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 9 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 10 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 11 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 12 | He actually corrected it later on when he has to go back into it but , you know , just , just a wee point there erm you did , did it initially but corrected it later on when you , you came back into it . |
| 13 | He has to go back for it . |
| 14 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 15 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 16 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 17 | And he said he 's telling him point blank that he 's , if there 's any problems with invoices or anything , you have to deal with Andrew , he has to come back to me and deal with me direct ! |
| 18 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 19 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 20 | He says he wants to go back to his country , but he ca n't . |
| 21 | ‘ He wants to go back to Africa to make amends and because he really liked the place , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 22 | Now Mr MacCari says he wants to get back to concentrating on his job at Stoke City . |
| 23 | But Mr Major said he wants to get back in . |
| 24 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He 'd gone back to his stew , and silence . |
| 27 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 28 | If he 'd gone back to Zimbala it would have brought disgrace on the family . |
| 29 | ‘ … but , with their parents in hospital , I feel any such move would be counter-productive , ’ he 'd added curtly , dismissing the subject as he 'd turned back to the pile of papers in front of him . |
| 30 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |