Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 5 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |