Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 2 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 3 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 4 | ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added . |
| 5 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 6 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 8 | At a speed that neither could match Louisa and Horrocks saw him hasten back down the lake . |
| 9 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 10 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 11 | Why did you go back to London in the first place ? — why did n't you stay here ? ’ |
| 12 | oh , I did n't know you 've lost it when did you go back to the cinema ? |
| 13 | when did you go back to the cinema then ? |
| 14 | And er after this did you move back to Edinburgh ? |
| 15 | Did you walk back on your own ? |
| 16 | Just sugar and eggs in there , and the card why did you come back for ? |
| 17 | Why did you come back for ? |
| 18 | Ye a an after you 'd done that did you remain at the exit door or did you come back into the ? |
| 19 | ‘ Did you come back from the villa specially for me ? ’ |
| 20 | Did you come back in ? |
| 21 | ‘ How ever did you get back to Yzordderrex to do that ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What time did you get back to the house ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What time did you get back to the caravan ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ When did you get back to the house ? ’ |
| 25 | And how , how did you get back into then ? |
| 26 | How did you get back into nursing ? |
| 27 | ‘ Did she go back to the name Tatham ? ’ |
| 28 | Yeah What about that one did she go back to her own bed ? |
| 29 | ‘ Then why did she come back at all ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did she come back to Italy often ? ’ |