Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 2 | I straightened my tie and guided my hair back with my hands . |
| 3 | I brought my bombs back on many occasions , because I am quite certain we never got anywhere near anything that looked like a target . |
| 4 | I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either . |
| 5 | Are you ever planning on giving me my clip back by any chance Susan ? |
| 6 | ‘ I will go to bring my Gohar back in five days , ’ Astrik went on dreamily . |
| 7 | I took my skis back to the shop next morning , realising that perhaps the marginal snowbridges and crevasses of the Argentiere glacier were not an ideal nursery . |
| 8 | But when I pack my skis back into the hall cupboard behind the vacuum cleaner , I want my hills unsullied by pylons and snow fences . |
| 9 | and it 'll flow out , okay , now we know that 's the difference in colour and I 've already told you that the arteries have got muscles in their walls , what 's the difference in between the wall of the muscle , muscular wall , let's put my teeth back in , the muscular wall of the artery and the wall of the vein ? |
| 10 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 11 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 12 | I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport . |
| 13 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 14 | I dragged my mind back into the world of Anna and Dmitri Charsky . |
| 15 | I was and it 's never gone away even though I 've put my weight back on . |
| 16 | I 'll have to put my weight back on now I 've stopped smoking |
| 17 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 18 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 19 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 20 | oh I put my half off , I doubt if I get my feet back in them , but , yeah |
| 21 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 22 | I said I 'll put my shoes back on but I do n't know what my feet will be like when I get out the bus |
| 23 | ‘ Not too bad , ’ came the reply , ‘ but I was glad to get that surplice off and get my trousers back on again . ’ |
| 24 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 25 | Even so , when I stumbled across Miss Diana Dors — a permissive sex-symbol of some notoriety twenty years ago — advancing its claims in a popular magazine and asking us to cast our minds towards ‘ my era back in the fifties ’ , I was not immediately sure whose side she was supposed to be on . |
| 26 | When I die , I want you to take my body back to Windsor . |
| 27 | I 've got a poster copy of that in my room back at St Andy 's . |
| 28 | I laugh a lot , throwing my head back with vicarious pleasure at many of these stories . |
| 29 | Just put my head back on the seat and closed my eyes . |
| 30 | Do the books feel very hard because I have a tendency to pull my head back onto them with excessive and habitual tension in the muscles of the neck ? |