Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] back and " in BNC.

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1 I doubled back and picked a spot to vault the fence , using a post as a grip .
2 Anyway I got back and er
3 ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child .
4 I checked it off when I got back and it 's not too bad .
5 I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in
6 I got back and they said erm oh Gav 's r Gav did ring you and your mum .
7 Engulfed by a sea of media correspondents , I shuttled back and forth , hardly saying hello to family and friends , before being led over to the bandstand .
8 Turning onto finals over a wood-storage factory under the approach , the rattly , misfiring old JAP caused one or two upturned faces as I throttled back and descended , sounding like an aerial vintage motorcycle , towards the grass runway at about 60 kts , reducing to 50 over the threshold .
9 In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water .
10 But when he was n't fighting shadows , he 'd just spend the morning dozing on his mattress while I paced back and forth and sometimes did a few push-ups and other exercises .
11 Almost screaming , I staggered back and as I glared wildly I saw Shep disappearing at top speed towards the gate .
12 Only to say I came back and saw glass as another might see it .
13 I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’
14 I came back and saw that most Vietnamese workers do n't care about politics .
15 One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked .
16 At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine .
17 I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way .
18 ‘ If I came back and trained and lived here again I would probably go back to being the blue-eyed boy .
19 I went to walk on Sunday evening with my daughter round the estate , and I came back and could n't get a , a breath when I came in panicked and it was a f it was a horrible feeling .
20 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
21 So I came back and let myself in .
22 There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ?
23 Oh yes er er yes and or well I came back and organized the workshop you know did the displays and things like that .
24 Ahem erm from July thirty nine I think were , when I came back and then what led up to me going abroad
25 Erm , I thought mine , when I came back and I briefed everybody so that they all knew what was going on
26 I was over in Belfast and I came back and it were green .
27 The day I came back and I had n't seen .
28 , and we went to the beach and I came back and , leap of the whole er , side of the car .
29 Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing .
30 I drove back and saw them
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