Example sentences of "back to [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 2 | And then we wrote back to them and said we are very likely getting funding from , in which case can we use your money for other purposes er Well one reason specifically said chairs . |
| 3 | McIllvanney turned back to me and dropped his voice very slightly . |
| 4 | Quigley went to the door to check there was no one around , then , unable to stop himself , ran back to me and twisted my ear hard . |
| 5 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 6 | Suddenly he walked back to me and said I ought to avenge my father 's death and that he could help me . |
| 7 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 8 | I got the tastiest bird in the place and all that and er she spun it and spun it back to me and spun it . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had given this young lad the car , people could have come back to us and said we had broken the rules , ’ the hotel owner said . |
| 10 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |