Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] back [prep] [art] " 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 did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 6 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 7 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 8 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If I go back along the path again he can have a good sniff there . |
| 11 | If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You can wait here until I get back from the Khirgiz . ’ |
| 15 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 16 | My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , do n't start till I get back into the audience , ’ he commanded . |
| 18 | ‘ Could we meet downstairs later , after I come back from the course ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
| 21 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 26 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 27 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 28 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |