Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case I came back . ’ |
| 2 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 3 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 4 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 5 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 6 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 7 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 8 | … a little box ; in it a red rose , and round the stalk of the rose is a slip of paper with the words written : ‘ Rudolf — Flavia — always ’ and the like I send back by him . |
| 9 | In this chapter I look back over responses to the challenges of curriculum planning and development in Africa in the ‘ sixties and ‘ seventies . |
| 10 | Thank you , the in after the interview I went back to Chelmsford where is the headquarters of the Essex Police Force and had to do a course for two weeks . |
| 11 | After I made the cut I folded back the turf ( still using the spade ) and saw the nest . |
| 12 | ‘ But the tape I brought back , ’ protested Laing . |
| 13 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 14 | The moment you see a striped juggling club you think back to the circus . |
| 15 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 16 | Love is some dame you left back in St Louis or a fast haul in the back seat of an automobile . ’ |
| 17 | If you fall off a horse you get back on it . |
| 18 | Sorry was on the tip of her tongue when a thought struck her with such force she lay back to fathom its meaning . |
| 19 | Within a month of filming the episode she flew back to London — heart of her new global empire — where she planned record and film work designed to guarantee that soon she would never need to work in Ramsay Street — or anywhere else for that matter — again . |
| 20 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 21 | ‘ In the movie we drive an AMC Pacer with flames on the wheel wells , but the car we had back then was a Dodge Dart Swinger ; it 's sort of like a Vauxhall Viva . |
| 22 | The first tape we played back and it was him eating toast ! |
| 23 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 24 | It is well established that objects are perceived to have the same colour despite quite extensive variations in the colour of the light with which they are illuminated and hence the wavelength of the light they reflect back to the retina . |
| 25 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 26 | When confronted more directly with homophobic reactions , Minton retaliated with spirit : once at the Chelsea Arts Club he sent back a note , passed along the bar , rudely objecting to the sailor he had in tow , with the remark : ‘ You would n't mind if it was an Admiral . ’ |
| 27 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 28 | Having been in the front rank at the first fence he dropped back , and as the field came past the stands for the first time , with most of the runners still surviving , he had few behind him . |
| 29 | Vic says that 's what 's historically the case , and Matt says that 's what was in the script he read back in Dudesville North Dakota or wherever he hangs his hat and that 's what he 's going to play . |
| 30 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |