Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 2 | And this was the letter that I got back . |
| 3 | I have dreamed that I came back here — in twenty years . |
| 4 | Thank goodness that I came back this morning . ’ |
| 5 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 6 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 7 | It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality . |
| 8 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 9 | Bag-dragging had exhausted me so much that I went back to bed and slept until afternoon . |
| 10 | In fact , I felt so wonderful that I glanced back at Old Red . |
| 11 | It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone . |
| 12 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 13 | Cawthorne had disappeared around the northern end of the farmhouse , so I ran back the way I had come , around the south end and climbed the fence back into the hop field . |
| 14 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 15 | When I went to the bus I realised I only had one bag instead of two so I rushed back but no-one had seen the bag in the pub or the shops . |
| 16 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 17 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 18 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 19 | They were all pretty well oiled by then so I went back and sat with the other children . |
| 20 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 21 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 22 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 23 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 24 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 25 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 26 | There was no answer so I went back . |
| 27 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 28 | But I was still Queen of Scots , so I came back to Scotland . |
| 29 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 30 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |