Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
2 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
3 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
4 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
5 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
6 | Mind you , she had the decency to come and confess , and I got it back from the bus company . |
7 | I steer her back towards the motel building , frog-marching her into Room 206 . |
8 | ‘ I traced ye back tae the dairy — ye know , the place ye worked when ye were a boy . ’ |
9 | As I poked them back in the compost moved , and I retreated hurriedly . |
10 | The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ? |
11 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
12 | I mean the old index-linked certificates , when they came up I put them back into the fourth issue , and then the fifth issue and so on because the bonuses are better . |
13 | I put it back on the floor . |
14 | I put it er , I put it back on the phone |
15 | He do n't want one , I put it back with the rest . |
16 | And , at the end of a we , when I put it back into the , the conversation |
17 | I put it back in the trunk , disappointed that there was nothing right for me to wear and wondering what I was going to do , for I wanted to go out with Sally . |
18 | I put it back in the box again . |
19 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
20 | Can I take you back to the er the Good Report er about Trust Law , i it the report er concludes that it should be retained as the framework for er occupation of pension schemes . |
21 | I brought him back to the matter in hand . |
22 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
23 | ‘ I brought it back from the brink , made the farm , forestry , the shoot self-supporting . |
24 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
25 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
26 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
27 | So I did something you should n't really do after a bird has completed a successful free flight : I put her back on the creance . |
28 | ‘ Now may I drive you back to the pub ? ’ he said casually , as they emerged into the open air , and found the studious young man of the kiosk waiting to see his last customers out , one finger still keeping his place in a book . |
29 | ‘ At the last moment she tried to back out but I dragged her back by the elbow . |
30 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |