Example sentences of "i [verb] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 3 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 5 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 6 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 7 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 8 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 9 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 10 | I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously , counting the strokes . |
| 11 | I got back under the duvet and felt my balls , for reassurance . |
| 12 | Reluctantly I got back into the car . |
| 13 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 14 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 15 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 16 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 17 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 18 | I got back to The Milebrook next day . |
| 19 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 22 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 23 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 24 | I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car . |
| 25 | I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst . |
| 26 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 27 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 28 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 29 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 30 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |