Example sentences of "[to-vb] i back " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 2 | Whether he wanted to be hurt and suffer , or an excuse to hit me back , I do n't know , but I 'm sure he wanted me to hit him . |
| 3 | Although they were pleased to see me back , a rift had come between the staff in the Steward 's Office and my office . |
| 4 | ‘ Do I take it you 're not entirely disappointed to see me back ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I know you 're glad to see me back , ’ said Thorfinn . |
| 6 | ‘ I am just eternally grateful that ITN were able to accept me back . ’ |
| 7 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 8 | to answer me back |
| 9 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 10 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 11 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 12 | She 's trying to win me back now , being nice to you and what's-his-name . ’ |
| 13 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 14 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In a funny way it 's helped to give me back my sense of independence , and I do more physically than I did before . |
| 17 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They even found an executive jet to fly me back . |
| 19 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 20 | During this time , the King of Lilliput had written to ask the King of Blefuscu to send me back , as a prisoner , so that I could receive my punishment . |
| 21 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 22 | Parking for tomorrow : NCP option : Miss Pell ( 01 499 7050 ) to phone me back re . |
| 23 | was meant to phone me back this morning when she 'd talked to her boss , but has n't , and I do n't know her work no. to chase her , but will let you know as soon as I hear ! |
| 24 | I phoned Mrs on erm Wednesday this week er Monday this week , sorry , and er she 's yet to phone me back . |
| 25 | And he says leave that to the local station , and say , can you leave a message with him to phone me back please . |
| 26 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 27 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 28 | He stopped and put his hand on my arm to hold me back . |
| 29 | I have been leaving messages with Craig and others over the last four weeks asking for you to call me back , but have had no response . |
| 30 | Well will you ask Steven to call me back ? |