Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | In a kind of panic I walked back to the carob and along the east side of the gulley to the top of the cliff that overlooked the private beach . |
| 3 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 4 | The next moment I jumped back against the wall , trembling with fear and horror . |
| 5 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 6 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 7 | ‘ At midnight I crawled back to the village on my stomach . |
| 8 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 9 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 10 | But the chances are as a customer I go back to the dealer and he says ‘ ah , you 've got a warranty , claim on that ’ . |
| 11 | By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track . |
| 12 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 13 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 14 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 15 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |
| 16 | I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car . |
| 17 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |