Example sentences of "we [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together we rode back to Thornfield . |
| 2 | But , we fought back , showing true fighting spirit , and looked as though we were set to win by a couple of points before the Americans rallied , salvaged some pride and squared the match . |
| 3 | And in the second half when we always make the bulk of our profits , we fought back and our second pre-tax er , er performance , exceeded by some five million er , that of nineteen ninety . |
| 4 | ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’ |
| 5 | On the earlier occasion , the old man had also ‘ stopp 'd short ’ while on a holiday fishing expedition ; at that time his daughter Emma was already dead , but we flash back even further for a moment to recall her voice . |
| 6 | We lay back , our faces buzzing with heat and the noise of insects . |
| 7 | Erm it 's it 's quite an interesting erm er , addition to the er original proposal but clearly members will need to take a view as to whether er they want erm the Environment Trust to do that but erm , er what I would suggest is that we bring back er , some final proposals from Environment Trust at the next meeting er , for members to have a look at . |
| 8 | Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest . |
| 9 | We squeeze back out the pub door onto the cold pavement , and stand reeling , like we were belched up by a drunken giant . |
| 10 | Soon , we taxied back down the road while cars blocked other traffic for us to take off . |
| 11 | George chuckled his way out of the horse car and we meandered back down the train together , George stopping to check for news with each sleeping-car attendant and to solve any problems . |
| 12 | We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’ |
| 13 | Then we doubled back to the barges . |
| 14 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 15 | ‘ So how come you were n't here when we got back ? |
| 16 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 17 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They had n't paid the interest and court fees , but we got back every single penny they owed . |
| 19 | When we got back , some of the men were asleep and some were finishing their supper . |
| 20 | ‘ We got back from Ireland . |
| 21 | By the time we got back there was a marquee in the garden . |
| 22 | By the time we got back in 1979 the CPRS had already changed beyond recognition . |
| 23 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 24 | When we got back , they 'd taken the carpet and some of the furniture away . |
| 25 | We could n't understand it when we got back home , our mothers cooking us eggs and bacon . |
| 26 | We got back to camp around 4pm unloaded the van , cleaned all our blackened pots , put away our food , unpacked our gear , had hot showers , washed our hair and got ready for a big lobster dinner with fresh corn and a huge green salad and gobs of ice cream or frozen yoghurt . |
| 27 | When we got back from Berlin we spent a week out in the country at Beate 's parents ' weekend cottage . |
| 28 | ‘ We were preparing for what we thought might be our future and so we got back to the people who 'd singled us out , and a guy called Keith Wilson , who was eventually responsible for recording and co-producing our first Fleetwood Mac album , got us down and we put an album out , which kind of came and went . |
| 29 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 30 | When we got back home Dad 's mates had left and he himself was snoring in the chair . |