Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because , well I get paid off when the receivers come in , I was about three month out before I got sent back for and er the starting wage was , I think we actually got a wee rise , I think we were the only section that |
| 2 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 3 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 4 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 5 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 6 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 7 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 8 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 9 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 10 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 11 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 12 | While I was in Cookham she got knocked back on her parole , she got a five-year review . |
| 13 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
| 14 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 15 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
| 16 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 17 | But then , when he had leaned forward to brush her cheek , her neck , she had moved back as if he had transgressed , and all his knowledge of her had been shattered by her refusal . |
| 18 | He smiled and looked down , remembering that moment in the machine when she had glared back at him . |
| 19 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 20 | By 1713 she had travelled back to England to oversee the Wilsthorpe estate . |
| 21 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 22 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 23 | In this case , sometime before we reached Ixyphal , she had gone back to the storage and cargo area to look at the sculpture again , murmuring things like ’ masterpiece ’ and ’ magnificent ’ and the usual art-appreciation noises that people murmur . |
| 24 | They contained news of Rose , details of life in wartime Oswaldston , stories from her daily work in teaching , which she had gone back to . |
| 25 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 26 | When eventually she had arrived back at Briar Cottage , there had been no concealing her distress from Bess Halidon . |
| 27 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 28 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 29 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 30 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |