Example sentences of "[subord] i [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 If I go back along the path again he can have a good sniff there .
9 If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ You can wait here until I get back from the Khirgiz . ’
13 It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened .
14 My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays .
15 ‘ Well , do n't start till I get back into the audience , ’ he commanded .
16 ‘ Could we meet downstairs later , after I come back from the course ? ’
17 So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ?
18 So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe .
19 ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’
20 ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid .
21 When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients .
22 Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest .
23 It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage .
24 Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling .
25 When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet .
26 There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced .
27 yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting .
28 When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate .
29 When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky .
30 I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room .
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