Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall be away until January 11th , but need to process this information IMMEDIATELY I get back , so please , please , please have it waiting on my doorstep . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Big men do n't cry so the saying goes , so I hold back the tears — but they 're there none the less . |
| 7 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
| 8 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were all pretty well oiled by then so I went back and sat with the other children . |
| 12 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 15 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 16 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 17 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 18 | There was no answer so I went back . |
| 19 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 20 | But I was still Queen of Scots , so I came back to Scotland . |
| 21 | I know the station 's on one side , cos there 's light coming from there , so I go back that way . |
| 22 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 23 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 24 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 25 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 26 | Also , when I went to stand up I was so whoozy that I just could n't keep my balance , so I slumped back down again . |
| 27 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 28 | Then I saw 'e 'd gone , so I comes back to finish orf . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There was n't time to read anything then , so I nipped back to my flat and found a Virgin Records plastic bag to hide them in . |