Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] back a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 2 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 3 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 4 | I sent off my $5 and I got back a list of occupations : TV repairman , shoe salesman , musician , fireman , axe murderer . |
| 5 | I got back a two-word coded message . |
| 6 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 7 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 8 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 9 | Instinctively , I ducked back a tree or two . |
| 10 | I walked back a bit and found a shiny black bollard — capstan they call it , do n't they , where they tie the ropes round . |
| 11 | Er am I I brought back a pack full of riveting information for Your Lordships which I have placed in the library , this library , not that library . |
| 12 | I saw the plant growing happily in a garden in Virginia , and I brought back a cutting … |
| 13 | ‘ How could I pay back a loan ? |
| 14 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 15 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 16 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 17 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 18 | ‘ Jeffrey and I go back an awful long way , and it makes a lot of sense for him to be published by us on both sides of the Atlantic , ’ Mr Bell commented . |
| 19 | I bit back a tart reply as my master tugged at my sleeve and we tactfully took our leave . |
| 20 | Ca can I go back a bit to your childhood . |
| 21 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 22 | I move back a pace . |
| 23 | Obligingly I leaned back an additional inch or two into the firm and furry pillows . |
| 24 | I held back a little before leaving them in her care , because as well as the hens there were eleven chicks ; she was a person full of goodwill and theories , but not practical . |
| 25 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 26 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 27 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 28 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 29 | These had deeds of Herakles and Theseus , and an Amazonomachy , presumably that at Themiscyra , the city of the Amazons , where Theseus accompanied Herakles on his quest for Hippolyta 's girdle and himself brought back an Amazon bride , Antiope . |
| 30 | Which brings back a curious memory , of canvassing a young man in a tracksuit in Cromford , Derbyshire , who stood before me arguing about education , with what John Major would call a very considerable erection . |