Example sentences of "i [vb past] back on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 2 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 3 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 4 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 5 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 6 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 7 | Roger and I hung back on the hill , watching the rest of the party go into a wood . |
| 8 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 9 | One night I was up all night with him and I started back on the bottle . |
| 10 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 11 | Laying my pack of cigarettes on the table , I lay back on the bed and looked at the ceiling . |
| 12 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 13 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 14 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 15 | When I went back on the Wednesday , Miss Hale , the Headmistress of the Infants ' School asked why I had been absent . |
| 16 | Then I became allergic to Durex so I went back on the Pill , a different one . |
| 17 | I went back on the c |
| 18 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 19 | I was n't memorably arresting or amusing , and I dare say I fell back on the weather like everyone else , but it worked . |
| 20 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 21 | I sat back on the bed , trying to decide if I would not confront the Frankenstein household openly . |