Example sentences of "back to my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties . |
| 2 | As soon as I had finished speaking , the small emergency wireless station was dismantled , and I rushed back to my two sergeants to get ready to leave . |
| 3 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 4 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 5 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 6 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 7 | So I 'd left my pouch-seat in the control area to take my troubled mind back to my personal cabin . |
| 8 | I 'd dearly love to go back to my real home , but er unfortunately there 's no way I could pay the mortgage on it . |
| 9 | ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly . |
| 10 | As everybody waved goodbye I found myself growing back to my normal size . |
| 11 | I still was n't feeling strong or back to my normal fitness , but I thought that some fresh air would do me good ( well that was my excuse anyway ! ) . |
| 12 | Erm certainly I will carry back to my fellow bishops what is expressed here , concern about the question of sacramental intercommunion . |
| 13 | As I look back to my inner training in prayer , I see an early stage when it consisted of asking God 's blessing on myself and those I loved , then through a stage of mental meditation , and finally a merging into contemplation , which did not need words , but a silent awareness of the presence of God , which sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour or more . |
| 14 | Which took me straight back to my young friend on the terrace , for whom only the numbers count . |
| 15 | I find the flavour … appropriate , and take it back to my cardboard work-station . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 18 | What will you do when I 'm gone , back to my safe life ? ’ |
| 19 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 20 | No need to go back to my own phone — I can use one of these . |
| 21 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 22 | when I look at Lindsey and what she 's doing at the minute , I look back to my own life at her age |
| 23 | When I think back to my own childhood I remember only long sun-struck afternoons , the smell of dust under avenues of eucalyptus , the quiet rustle of water in roadside furrows , the lulling of doves . |
| 24 | It 's also the case I suppose that erm from the point of view of a child , thinking back to my own childhood , a lot of contact with grown-ups was was enormously traumatic and yet was considered by the grown-ups to be entirely legitimate . |
| 25 | I stalked out of the hall , quite pleased with myself , and went back to my own chamber . |
| 26 | ‘ Now I come back to my own country — and I ca n't even go into a Wimpey bar . ’ |
| 27 | When I was finally allowed up and I went back to my own home I expected to forget you . |
| 28 | Mark 's voice brought me back to my own predicament . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think I 'm going to do something stupid , like going back to my own flat ? |
| 30 | ‘ Fand — how do I get back to my own world ? ’ |