Example sentences of "back [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth . |
| 2 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 3 | Young Claire looked a good bet for the second set as well she was 4-2 up at one stage until Lizzie fought back and took and forced the tie break which she won … |
| 4 | Little Billy waved back and laughed and thought how wonderful it all was . |
| 5 | But the old woman fell back and died before she could tell me more . ’ |
| 6 | Rogers and Lambert , Killion , Finlayson and Richards lay back and guffawed and waited for Woolley to do something abut it . |
| 7 | The sleeping-car attendant came back and announced that by great good fortune he had an empty berth for which the occupant had unaccountably not appeared . |
| 8 | In old age Ramsey looked back and knew that this was the hardest decision of his life . |
| 9 | I came back and saw that most Vietnamese workers do n't care about politics . |
| 10 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 11 | He turned and looked back and saw that where the eagles were , especially the central cages where the golden eagles lived , there was chaos . |
| 12 | But anyway when y when you were first exploring erm the needs and Maggie came back to you and offered erm this , this policy that she wanted for her daughter , but you never actually went back and saw if there was anything else , you never came back |
| 13 | Then it was that , with him towering over her , she took a step back and observed that Naylor Massingham must have some highly confidential papers in his briefcase since , evidently not trusting to leave it in his car , he had chosen to bring it up to her flat with him . |
| 14 | Nell smiled sweetly at his departing back and asked if I 'd ever noticed how important everything was to actors ? |
| 15 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ She came back and said that the people had arrived for my early morning meeting . |
| 17 | Two days later they called me back and said that I could n't go back to Jamaica , but offered me a place in the group going to Thailand , which was leaving in February . |
| 18 | He rang me back and said that he would certainly come . |
| 19 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 20 | My mum wrote back and said that she did n't have that kind of money . |
| 21 | And that , straight away he come back and said that he 'd got it . |
| 22 | We have a lot of privacies , and a lot of things until we change them , and you know why we changed it , because you went out and saw your clients and told them products and they reported you , and you came back and said but what about this , what about this ? |
| 23 | The leader stood back and watched as two , perhaps three , Hunters covered his body in a gold paste . |
| 24 | She took the photograph back and sighed as she stared at it . |
| 25 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 26 | looked back and wondered if something important were |
| 27 | Athelstan smiled back but watched as , a few minutes later , Pike rose and led the rest of his companions out of the tavern . |