Example sentences of "i [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 3 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 4 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 5 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 6 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 7 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 8 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 9 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 12 | I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously , counting the strokes . |
| 13 | I got back under the duvet and felt my balls , for reassurance . |
| 14 | Reluctantly I got back into the car . |
| 15 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 16 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 17 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 18 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |
| 19 | I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room . |
| 20 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 21 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 22 | I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst . |
| 23 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 24 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 25 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 26 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 27 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 28 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 29 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 30 | I got back to The Milebrook next day . |