Example sentences of "i [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 2 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 3 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 4 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 5 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 6 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 7 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 8 | I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously , counting the strokes . |
| 9 | I got back under the duvet and felt my balls , for reassurance . |
| 10 | Reluctantly I got back into the car . |
| 11 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 12 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 13 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 14 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |
| 15 | I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room . |
| 16 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 17 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 18 | I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst . |
| 19 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 20 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 21 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 22 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 23 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 24 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 25 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 26 | I got back to The Milebrook next day . |
| 27 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 28 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 29 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |
| 30 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |