Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 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 | I changed back to the Tasmanian Devil and had a similar thumping take first cast . |
| 4 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 7 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 8 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 9 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 10 | I pedalled back to the High Street , past Magdalen and across the bridge to the Plain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I shrank back against the wooden seatback . |
| 15 | ‘ Hello Annie , ’ I called back from the half-open window . |
| 16 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 17 | I looked back at the first . |
| 18 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 19 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 20 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 21 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I thought back to the 17th and remembered Lee 's words : ‘ Mr Lu does n't want to win the Open Championship . ’ |
| 26 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 27 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 30 | 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 ! |