Example sentences of "i [verb] back on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 2 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 3 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 4 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 5 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 6 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 7 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 8 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 9 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 10 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 11 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 12 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 13 | Roger and I hung back on the hill , watching the rest of the party go into a wood . |
| 14 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 15 | One night I was up all night with him and I started back on the bottle . |
| 16 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 17 | Laying my pack of cigarettes on the table , I lay back on the bed and looked at the ceiling . |
| 18 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 19 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 20 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 21 | When I went back on the Wednesday , Miss Hale , the Headmistress of the Infants ' School asked why I had been absent . |
| 22 | Then I became allergic to Durex so I went back on the Pill , a different one . |
| 23 | I went back on the c |
| 24 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 25 | I was n't memorably arresting or amusing , and I dare say I fell back on the weather like everyone else , but it worked . |
| 26 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 27 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 28 | Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride . |
| 29 | I sat back on the bed , trying to decide if I would not confront the Frankenstein household openly . |
| 30 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |