Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 3 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 4 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 7 | I began to climb back into the limo . |
| 8 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 9 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 10 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 11 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 12 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 13 | So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things . |
| 14 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 15 | Well I meant to say back to the house , I meant to say . |
| 16 | I managed to glare back at the boy , who went on chewing . |
| 17 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 18 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 19 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 20 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 21 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 22 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 23 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 24 | Did not get the job — dear , former [ xx ] Manager , drove me up there ( 6 miles north of Perth ) and then on to Dunkeld where he insisted on giving me lunch — he had originally thought of taking me to Gleneagles , but I had to get back to the outplacement people — and did so , only to find ‘ my ’ counsellor had , for the third time , failed to keep an appointment with me . |
| 25 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 26 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 27 | Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds . |