Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 2 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 3 | After I got back to civilian life , I fell back into the habit of admiring the Masai , but regarding them as insubstantial . |
| 4 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 5 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
| 6 | Bleary-eyed , I staggered back to Nevski Prospect , and there I spotted a dejected-looking husband sitting in his car outside a supermarket , obviously waiting for his wife to emerge with the shopping . |
| 7 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 8 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 9 | I tell you why I get up , I get up because I came back from that conference . |
| 10 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 11 | I look back with great thankfulness to God and deep affection to Holy Cross students for what was a most happy and satisfying central period of my life . |
| 12 | ‘ Although it was horrible to lose my titles , I look back at that fight as a great experience . ’ |
| 13 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 14 | I look back on those emotions with wry amusement but also with a certain amount of self-respect . |
| 15 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 16 | I look back upon this household as having been — after [ Edward ] — the strongest influence in my life . |
| 17 | No way was I going back to that house . |
| 18 | I turned back to seventeenth-century France . |
| 19 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
| 20 | By the time I get back to this dump we 're staying in I 've decided to say nothing to Rachel . |
| 21 | Pallister said : ‘ When I get back to Old Trafford , I will tell the lads we have a fight on our hands . |
| 22 | In fact , I felt so wonderful that I glanced back at Old Red . |
| 23 | I think I think I go back to this point about I think in concept anyway I 'm not happy about er a proposition that er that function is performed or I can see the disadvantages significant disadvantages in having the traffic er for both the A sixty one er and the A fifty nine c and its links into Harrogate and Knaresborough , concentrated on that er on on inner northern line . |
| 24 | I could make smaller movies , but after running in the Olympics why should I go back to High School ? |
| 25 | Yeah , er can I go back to this point before |
| 26 | I went back to that idiot , the jeweller who turned it down . |
| 27 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 28 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 29 | On the subject of my aunts , I must share with you something which still makes me smile when I think back on those days of yore , which were for us children — halcyon days . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |