Example sentences of "i was [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 2 | I was invited back to Clandeboye after the game by some other friendly Bangor folk . |
| 3 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 4 | ‘ Hardly had I arrived there than I was called back to entertain Princess Margaret , who was paying a visit to the studio , ’ recalls executive producer Peter . |
| 5 | I was called back in . |
| 6 | And I was called back and they said Right . |
| 7 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 8 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 9 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 10 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 11 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 12 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 13 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 14 | Just as I was leaving the studio , I was summoned back . |
| 15 | I was flung back , failing , tripping over my capo , into a shrieking crowd of students who were certainly mind-blasted . |
| 16 | ‘ I really think I was holding back . |
| 17 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 18 | But I was sent back home anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ For a while — until I was sent back to Arrancay . ’ |
| 20 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 21 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 22 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 23 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 24 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 25 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 26 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 27 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 28 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 29 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 30 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |