Example sentences of "he [verb] back at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beamed back at them . |
| 2 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 3 | Wolsey 's hard eyes softened as he gazed back at Benjamin . |
| 4 | His expression was inscrutable as he gazed back at her . |
| 5 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 6 | He drew back at last . |
| 7 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 8 | He was already half-way down the ladder when he shouted back at me , ‘ Do n't you want to come along , sister ? ’ |
| 9 | He listened in rapt concentration as Mr Mercer described how one soldier shot off his leg and threatened to kill him until he shouted back at him ‘ in best barrack room invective ’ . |
| 10 | He came back at 3 p.m. and they were still going . |
| 11 | He came back at Monza , five weeks later . |
| 12 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 13 | Holmes went out for the morning , but he came back at lunch-time . |
| 14 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 15 | ‘ So you 've already discussed my suggestion ? ’ he came back at once . |
| 16 | A second or two later though and she realised that she must have been mistaken , for his look was suddenly more mocking than anything when , ‘ In a word , ’ he lobbed back at her , ‘ fantastic . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's suddenly urgent ? ’ he slammed back at her — and Fabia could cheerfully have hit him . |
| 18 | One morning , he left Leeds at eight am and after interviews in London and a concert in Brighton , he arrived back at school at nine am the following morning . |
| 19 | He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return . |
| 20 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 21 | When he arrived back at the hall Bourne was there alone . |
| 22 | His mother was out when he arrived back at Cornerways , and so was Rose-Ann . |
| 23 | pilot Albert Thompson was still too shocked to speak when he arrived back at his home in Great Coxwell near Farringdon . |
| 24 | Monday was always busy with everybody stocking up after the weekend and by the time he arrived back at Number 112 for his afternoon tea he was exhausted . |
| 25 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 26 | Only then did he look back at Mariana . |
| 27 | ‘ No , I do n't , ’ he flared back at her . |
| 28 | He landed back at 1045 . |
| 29 | He stepped back at once , and the sweat of fear was upon his pale face . |
| 30 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |