Example sentences of "he [vb -s] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When he 's dried out , he goes back on the road , an entertainer for whom the drug of applause and audience-love assuages his insecurity . |
| 4 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 5 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 6 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 7 | He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe , and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence . |
| 8 | The only ones I 'll let go are Carly and Bill , they 've got ta catch a plane , er train , and Justin 's got to come back before he heads back to the hotel . |
| 9 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 10 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 11 | As I calmly shut the door he cringes back against the wall . |
| 12 | He shuffles back to the sofa and drops heavily into his seat . |
| 13 | And yet he stumbles back into the crap rap trap between every number . |
| 14 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 15 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 16 | If he gets back into the England team it will be deservedly so . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a gentleman waiting to see you , ’ says the porter , when he gets back to the hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew it was possible ! ’ he calls back to the porter . |
| 19 | He lolls back against the wheelchair . |
| 20 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 21 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 22 | He leans back against the wall , seeing his face in the cracked , diamond-shaped mirror and he sifts through his thoughts , trying to hold back the vitriol while searching his face for yet more mutations . |
| 23 | He leans back against the mantelpiece with his coffee , mastering the situation , a man of the world entertaining his oldest friend in his mistress 's house . |
| 24 | He walks back across the town , drifting off the ground at every other step , floating the length of whole streets . |
| 25 | ‘ Happy Christmas , ma'am , ’ the postman says and , as he steps back into the darkness , she notices he 's wearing gloves . |
| 26 | He steps back into the caravan , staring hard at me . |
| 27 | It filled his his truck up so he said when he comes back on the next delivery he 'll take all the turf away for fifteen quid . |
| 28 | ‘ What if he comes back without the girl ? |
| 29 | Then right at the end of the interview , he comes back to the fundamental question about himself — what is on offer . |
| 30 | When he comes back to the room at first everything looks the same . |