Example sentences of "i back " in BNC.
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| 1 | of course and I back . |
| 2 | Do you know why I back to Norman ? |
| 3 | ‘ Please do n't send me back . |
| 4 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |
| 5 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 6 | She forced me back into the hall , where I was bound to run into Father . |
| 7 | In fact , such was my dread of returning home , I nearly managed to miss my plane , but somehow the clockwork motor inside me brought me back in one piece . |
| 8 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 9 | Progress over the next two months or so should take me back to climbing . |
| 10 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do n't you take me back to my house and I 'll try some other way ? ’ |
| 12 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 13 | — Brenda Binge of Burnley calling for a ban on acid house parties ‘ I went to Oxford University , but I 've never let it hold me back . ’ |
| 14 | The mentality that got me where I was , then held me back . ’ |
| 15 | I clambered out of the trench and Tony escorted me back to the road . |
| 16 | Would Mills Roberts wish to retain my services as the Brigade Piper or would he send me back to Achnacarry ? |
| 17 | A far shout calls me back to truth . |
| 18 | It quite knocked me back when I saw it . |
| 19 | ‘ Set me back , I can tell you . |
| 20 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 21 | So you give it me back . ’ |
| 22 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 23 | ‘ A million horses ai n't going to drag me back there . |
| 24 | You have been a good friend to me when there was no one else ; and you have given me back my health . |
| 25 | — Me back 's giving me gip. — No worse than usual , mind ! |
| 26 | — Me back was playing me up . |
| 27 | ‘ Pull me back up ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 29 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 30 | As I drove into the guide dog training centre at Leamington Spa it took me back to the day I arrived there to start my apprenticeship as a guide dog mobility instructor . |