Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 2 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 3 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 4 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 5 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 6 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 7 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 8 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 9 | There was no arguing with him , and it was very pleasant to have someone caring , so she sat back in the seat without further protest . |
| 10 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 11 | Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third |
| 12 | You then rotate the eyepiece so you get back to the condition that you had before . |
| 13 | ‘ Adam never stood a chance , did he , once you came back on the scene ? |
| 14 | The changes only take effect once you move back into the word processor . |
| 15 | Suddenly rain poured down , and although we hurried back to the house , we were quite wet when we arrived in the hall . |
| 16 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 17 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
| 18 | ‘ So it comes back to the alcohol , probably the brandy , and Lord Wittisham . ’ |
| 19 | If I go back along the path again he can have a good sniff there . |
| 20 | If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question . |
| 21 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ You can wait here until I get back from the Khirgiz . ’ |
| 24 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 25 | Having selected your sleeve / armhole type , a third menu appears for you to select your FRONT NECK type , followed by a fourth menu for the BACK NECK type ( see Fig 1 ) Should you wish to change any of the selections you have made , just press ESCAPE until you get back to the menu that you need to alter . |
| 26 | It 's a great job , but you do n't enjoy it until you get back to the ground . |
| 27 | If she walked back into the laboratory Jason would engineer a scene . |
| 28 | And if she comes back to the house , she wo n't be able to find me , so I got to stay there . |
| 29 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 30 | Well if you turn back to the various sectors . |