Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 2 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 3 | Well let me wait , I 'll tell , I 'll sh I 'll tell you what the insurers say when they come back , when it comes . |
| 4 | Do you know when we came back from |
| 5 | Sure so at least you 'll know when I come back I 'm gon na ask you , thank you very much indeed . |
| 6 | So when you do n't know when you go back in then ? |
| 7 | ‘ Think about it and let us know when you get back — we wo n't pressure you , but I know you 'd have nothing to do but relax and be your wondrous self . ’ |
| 8 | Instead she and Jennifer absent-mindedly watched aircraft taking off and landing on the company runway , then another thought suddenly struck her and she said , ‘ Do you know why he came back from Australia ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's probably better , cos I mean normally I start back in January . |
| 10 | Australians and Chinese , who have borne the burden and heat of the day in the war imposed by Japanese aggression , naturally take a dim view of Washington 's new policy and ask how Japan is going to behave once it gets back its industrial strength . |
| 11 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 12 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 13 | No he came back he came back after he had been at the meeting . |
| 14 | Nan you 'll love why do n't you go back and watch your programme and have a sit down and we wo n't be two ticks eating these . |
| 15 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 16 | But for some strange reason , and I do n't know whether they direct it to Christian the last shot of the film , almost unnoticeable because the credits were going up she went back into church and it was a communion service and all you saw was her receiving the bread and passing the plate and the plate was to the young black lad on the farm and you thought , he 's come back ! |
| 17 | but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon |
| 18 | As he walked away he looked back at me , ‘ Better eat it , Scottish , ’ he said , with a serious look on his face . |
| 19 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
| 20 | Remember how he fought back from TWO broken legs two years ago and jumped off the bench to score twice against Manchester United in the FA Cup final ? |
| 21 | And when the difficulty gets going , gets hard you turn back , he says do n't do that . |
| 22 | It 's very nice of you to ask me — erm — but I 've got a lot to do when I get back to England — erm — I 'd like to have a lie down … and there 'll be piles of washing … and I have n't got a hairdresser … ’ |
| 23 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 24 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 25 | And I says er you know when I came back from Rio de Janeiro , she 'd been out as a kiddy then . |
| 26 | See my nick name in the T A was Vicky , she probably felt save with somebody named Vicky see people started called me van witty and then it got changed to Wicky then somebody started called me Vicky and it stuck , she probably thought I 'd got a You know when I look back now I fucking enjoyed in the T A |
| 27 | ‘ All I know is that we ought to be up in that tower , plannin' how we get back to our own lines , and not wastin' any more time quarrellin' down ‘ ere . ’ |
| 28 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 29 | He watched as Nina disappeared then he turned back to Rachel . |
| 30 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |