Example sentences of "he walked back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 2 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 3 | The wig he finally chose needed modification by a barber ; but he got it done , put on a pair of folding spectacles he carried in his briefcase , and had the satisfaction of astonishing his colleagues when he walked back into the hotel . |
| 4 | He walked back into the front room and placed the keys on the sideboard and then hung his jacket on the inside of the door . |
| 5 | He walked back into the lounge , picked up a bottle half full with scotch , and poured himself a liberal glass full . |
| 6 | He walked back into the bedroom with the bottle of wine . |
| 7 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 8 | He walked back into the house . |
| 9 | He walked back into the room . |
| 10 | ‘ He then said ‘ I wo n't be a moment ’ and disappeared for his warm up then he walked back into the changing room , stripped off to the waist again , carried on his conversation and continued drinking his beer . ’ |
| 11 | As he walked back into the hot street he wondered if some royal bastard did indeed lurk in her family tree . |
| 12 | He walked back along the side of the track and edged down to join the scene-of-crime squad . |
| 13 | He walked back along the path , rebuking himself for entertaining Mrs Diamond 's lurid notions . |
| 14 | He walked back along the wharf to the car park . |
| 15 | He walked back along the wharf . |
| 16 | Doyle shook his head as he contemplated the mess , then he walked back to the table to take the supplies into the kitchen … |
| 17 | As he walked back to the farmhouse with her , they talked of his plans for Boldwood 's farm . |
| 18 | He walked back to the square , preoccupied and disregarding the life of the town around him . |
| 19 | One evening , however , as the never-failing north wind freshened , rustling the tops of the dom palms as he walked back to the harbour quarter , he had the impression that someone was dogging his steps . |
| 20 | So he walked back to the guest house where Ranulf and Maltote were locked in a fierce game of dice . |
| 21 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 22 | He walked back to the bench and just then Mendez came in . |
| 23 | He walked back to the door . |
| 24 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 25 | He walked back around the side of the cottage to the open kitchen window , where the two girls were putting the packed food into a basket . |
| 26 | He walked back from the shop and the plate of meat and potatoes was put in front of him with a regularity that would have pleased an army officer . |