Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 2 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 3 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 4 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 5 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 6 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 7 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 8 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 9 | Just put my head back on the seat and closed my eyes . |
| 10 | The thought of morning service is always a pain , and the prospect of this one made me stick my head back under the duvet to block out the already brilliant day . |
| 11 | Shove my dreams and my Walkman back into the bag , and get off the train . |
| 12 | I shoved my dreams back into the bag — no time to zip it up — and went after him . |
| 13 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 14 | ‘ I want my career back on the track . |
| 15 | To say , as I pull my hand back from the flame , 'l have no reason to shun pain' , is no more than playing with a verbal formula of doubt ; it does not open any abyss under my feet like ‘ I have no reason to obey moral imperatives ’ . |
| 16 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 17 | Placing the bagpipes in my rucksack I made my way back across the green to the orchard , expecting a summons at any moment to appear before Shimi Lovat . |
| 18 | As I made my way back along the road I noticed that the ditches on both sides of the road contained dead British and German soldiers . |
| 19 | Instead , I made my way back along the sand , watching some evidently exhilarated surfers . |
| 20 | The Rising Star and Half Moon began to shine as I wended my way back over the Skerne Bridge . |
| 21 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
| 22 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 23 | I made my way back to the orchard at Brigade H.Q , the time about 12.30 a.m . |
| 24 | I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps . |
| 25 | I saluted him and then made my way back to the farmyard and the comparative safety of the farm buildings . |
| 26 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 27 | I 'm just on my way back to the hotel and with luck I 'll be able to get a flight tonight . |
| 28 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 29 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 30 | I had no way of telling what time it was , but surely it might soon be possible for me to escape from my desert island and make my way back to the cottage and a warm bed . |