Example sentences of "i [vb base] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 6 | I report back to the hotel room , defeated . |
| 7 | I ease back with the gun so he has room to move . |
| 8 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 9 | I walk back across the grass and pick up my barrel-bag . |
| 10 | As I walk back to the motel I am relieved to see that there is no light on in the room . |
| 11 | I walk back to the Cabinet Office . |
| 12 | At sunset , I climb back to the waterfall and wash my hair in the cold , clear water — a mundane chore elevated into sublime pleasure . |
| 13 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 14 | I look back at the door . |
| 15 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 16 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And I look back to the Alliance days and Dr Owen 's flirtation with elements of Flatcher of Flatcherism , pardon me . |
| 21 | I look back to the works . |
| 22 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 23 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 24 | As always when drawing , I stand back from the piece at regular intervals to get an overall feel as to how the drawing is developing , and to see if it is uniform in shade and texture . |
| 25 | I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep . |
| 26 | I scramble back across the sheets getting snarled up in them . |
| 27 | I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , do n't start till I get back into the audience , ’ he commanded . |
| 29 | Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest . |
| 30 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |