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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ?
2	So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March .
3	Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one .
4	I changed back to the Tasmanian Devil and had a similar thumping take first cast .
5	I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps .
6	I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled .
7	However , they caused me no ill and I staggered back to the Golden Turk and the tender care of the slattern , a bowl of rich broth and countless frothing tankards of ale .
8	I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping .
9	And still laughing , Charlie said , ‘ But I did what you lot did n't do : I came back with an Irish jig , and then , ‘ We 'll Meet Again ’ and ‘ Roll Out The Barrel ’ .
10	and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk !
11	I pedalled back to the High Street , past Magdalen and across the bridge to the Plain .
12	That afternoon , my feelings soothed with company and talk , Sally and I walked back down the bright valley through cricket-loud grasses and thousands of flowers .
13	Leaving the main building at bedtime , I walked back through the old walled garden , the churchyard , and down the grassy lane to the cottage annexe where I had my room .
14	At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail .
15	I shrank back against the wooden seatback .
16	‘ Hello Annie , ’ I called back from the half-open window .
17	Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
18	I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in .
19	I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch .
20	As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all .
21	I lay back in the long chair .
22	And I lay back in the cradling pouch-seat , enjoying the feeling of being safe and relaxed — and financially secure for a while , with that fee safely tucked away in my Fedbank account .
23	I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run .
24	Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number .
25	Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods .
26	In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu .
27	Periodically I went back to the northern wastes again , a sort of alchemical prep school where , like Lorne , I sustained myself through the dark times with dreams of the southern islands .
28	So I went back into the spare room , I was doing some ironing which was on the you know and the next minute the phone went !
29	Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves .
30	i was amazed at how quickly and easily I fell back into the old routine , and my fears that I had become brain-dead during my months at home turned out to be unfounded .