Example sentences of "i was [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ This morning ( 20 February ) I was moved back into the ward as I am now off the danger list . |
| 5 | I was dragged back into the boat almost immediately . |
| 6 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 7 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 8 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 9 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 10 | And , without further ado , I was marched back into the hall , placed on the dais , the heralds braying on their trumpets . |
| 11 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 12 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 13 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 14 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 15 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 18 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 19 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 20 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 21 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 22 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 23 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 24 | I was coming back to the fox hunting here , when it 's mentioned sorry about that Chair . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | ‘ I was coming back from the shops and saw Frankie dodging between parked cars , ’ Monica said yesterday . |
| 27 | I was coming back from the labs at Menelaus , after some work detail or other . |
| 28 | I was coming back from the shops the other day when I saw him get out of his car . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |
| 30 | ‘ I was coming back by the path from the ferry , through the woodland , and where the trees are thickest I stumbled over him . |