Example sentences of "back as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 2 | When I glanced back as I opened the gate , they were standing still , in a discomfited little group : they had not meant , I suppose , to hurt the child . |
| 3 | The safety-belt held me back as I jerked forward and at the same second heard the ghastly clash of metal hitting metal . |
| 4 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 5 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 6 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
| 7 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 8 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 9 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 10 | I hauled myself to the top of the wall , looking back as I prepared to jump . |
| 11 | I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end , looking back as I breathed to make sure she was following . |
| 12 | My lungs exploded , imploded , exploded , imploded ; plumes of wet sand flew from my soles , rising as I sped on , falling in little curves and spattering back as I raced on into the distance . |
| 13 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 14 | The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you . |
| 15 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |
| 16 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 17 | But I could make that one back as I had it . |
| 18 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |