Example sentences of "we [vb past] back and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the second half when we always make the bulk of our profits , we fought back and our second pre-tax er , er performance , exceeded by some five million er , that of nineteen ninety . |
| 2 | The first tape we played back and it was him eating toast ! |
| 3 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 4 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
| 5 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 6 | We came back and found a man lying with a leg blown off , his face totally disfigured and a lot of blood everywhere . ’ |
| 7 | Of course when we came back and discovered Andrew and co had arrived , he 'd parked on the verge and I had a dig at Andrew about it . |
| 8 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 9 | Now we hung back and got them out of our pockets and joined in with everyone else . |
| 10 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 11 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 12 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 13 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 14 | She came and knocked on the door and then we went back and I , I said what you stopped for ? |
| 15 | We went back and no , still nobody there . |
| 16 | We looked back and up , and for a moment the Towers ' summits were flecked with gold , before the sun slid down behind the unseen horizon and all Chile was plunged into blackness . |
| 17 | Once on a hilltop the trees broke , and we looked back and saw a vast red light on the horizon . |
| 18 | As the uniform cops thrust forwards we edged back and managed to slip away without attracting official notice . |
| 19 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 20 | We stood back and the motor started with a ripple of yellow fire . |
| 21 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |