Example sentences of "i [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 2 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 3 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 4 | As he pointed out , it was n't safe for me to go back on my own . |
| 5 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 6 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 7 | The day came for me to go back to work . |
| 8 | A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 9 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 10 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 11 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 12 | If you 'd er allow me to go back to item seven briefly . |
| 13 | That is why I think it is good for me to go back to Scotland to remember that there is a world outside London and television . |
| 14 | ‘ Allow me to sit back in amazement , young Ashley , ’ I said , crossing my arms and twisting in my seat to face her . |
| 15 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 16 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 17 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 18 | He wanted me to come back as , obviously , it was very helpful for him to have someone who would control things when he had to go out and work . |
| 19 | ‘ D' you want me to come back with you tonight ? ’ he asked her . |
| 20 | Nobody , and least of all S. O. Letterman , expects me to come back with answers to unanswerable questions . |
| 21 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 22 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 23 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 24 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 25 | I gazed back at him , dumbfounded . |
| 26 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 27 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 28 | By the riverbank in the warm afternoon sunlight I meandered back to Church Bridge and Dent . |
| 29 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 30 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |