Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 2 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I changed back to the Tasmanian Devil and had a similar thumping take first cast . |
| 7 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 8 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 13 | I pedalled back to the High Street , past Magdalen and across the bridge to the Plain . |
| 14 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 15 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I shrank back against the wooden seatback . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello Annie , ’ I called back from the half-open window . |
| 21 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 22 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 23 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I turn back to the white man 's earnest justification and go and make a cup of tea . |
| 28 | If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question . |
| 29 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
| 30 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |