Example sentences of "[subord] i [was/were] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum , no , I should invite Russell cos Russell 's mum and dad were asking if I we if asking if I was going back to it . |
| 2 | ‘ For a while — until I was sent back to Arrancay . ’ |
| 3 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 4 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 5 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But he was good enough to allow me some writing materials before I was taken back to my cell , formally charged with murder . |
| 8 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 9 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 10 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 11 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |