Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the densities that I was getting back from them varied considerably , from a hundred workers per hectare on some |
| 2 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 3 | I worshipped you , Angela , thought that I was coming back to you , and when you left me , you left me with nothing . |
| 4 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 5 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 6 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 7 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 8 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 9 | Mum , no , I should invite Russell cos Russell 's mum and dad were asking if I we if asking if I was going back to it . |
| 10 | ‘ For a while — until I was sent back to Arrancay . ’ |
| 11 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 12 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 13 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 14 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 15 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 16 | But he was good enough to allow me some writing materials before I was taken back to my cell , formally charged with murder . |
| 17 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 18 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 19 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 20 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |