Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] back on the " in BNC.

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1	They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines .
2	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 .
3	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 ?
4	She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall .
5	Roger and I hung back on the hill , watching the rest of the party go into a wood .
6	One night I was up all night with him and I started back on the bottle .
7	If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge .
8	When I went back on the Wednesday , Miss Hale , the Headmistress of the Infants ' School asked why I had been absent .
9	Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
10	When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest .
11	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 .

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