Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 2 | I was talking to Marty W. recently about ‘ Good Rockin' , and while he agreed it was both enjoyable and extremely well done , he confided that something which did n't come over was the almost unbelievable youth of everyone involved back then . |
| 3 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 4 | I doubled back and picked a spot to vault the fence , using a post as a grip . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I gazed back at him , dumbfounded . |
| 7 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 8 | In the end I crept back up to my room . |
| 9 | Mama made me go to school , but I crept back home just before noon . |
| 10 | I crept back upstairs to my little room and spoke my account of the previous day 's events into my journal . |
| 11 | At the end of the month I crept back round to John D.Wood to explain that the ninety pounds would not be forthcoming and they should feel free to place the property back on the market . |
| 12 | I choked back the tears and mumbled that I was glad I 'd had cancer . |
| 13 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 14 | and I laid back so that the fashion might |
| 15 | ‘ I think she 's very proud , ’ I whispered back . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ I whispered back . |
| 17 | By the riverbank in the warm afternoon sunlight I meandered back to Church Bridge and Dent . |
| 18 | I fought back as hard as I could . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Ah , I was so angry , I was , he had my arm right , I forced , pushed him back it was , like , behind my back so I lent back thinking oh he 'll give me his arms then anyway old flipping hag came in did n't she ! |
| 21 | I passed back the form and just about managed a smile myself . |
| 22 | Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh with the army . |
| 23 | After two weeks in Dunbar , Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh . |
| 24 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 25 | I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously , counting the strokes . |
| 26 | When I got back home there was H. , in the living-room , pleased as Punch . |
| 27 | When I got back I sat in front of the big glass with the door shut and the lights off , till dawn . |
| 28 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 29 | ‘ When I got back to my apartment I ate some ham and beans , and opened a bottle of rather rust-coloured claret . |
| 30 | Steve was already there when I got back . |