Example sentences of "my [noun] [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 2 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 3 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 4 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 5 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 6 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 7 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 8 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 9 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 10 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 11 | I let my mouth fall open and set my glass down heavily on the table , allowing my head to fall back against the chair and my eyes to close , in the imitation of unconsciousness . |
| 12 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 13 | ‘ When my wife comes back with the shopping we 're going to try out this new jib ; she 'll be back any minute . |
| 14 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 15 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 16 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 17 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |