Example sentences of "i had [adv] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 2 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 3 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 4 | The you walk down one street , and you say , ‘ Well I had better get back to my bearings , or I shall lose myself and you go back to the town hall . |
| 5 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |