Example sentences of "[vb past] get back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolling over , he buried his face in the pillow and tried to get back his old picture of her — hard and tough and violent , the same all the way through . |
| 2 | Laying her head on the pillow she closed her eyes and tried to get back to sleep . |
| 3 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 4 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 5 | ‘ We tried to get back but the waves were getting bigger . |
| 6 | Per , at No. 20 with How Do You Do , reveals : ‘ I bumped into a chambermaid as I tried to get back in . |
| 7 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 8 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 9 | No I did n't even get up for that , I come downstairs , I made myself an orange juice he Vicked me back and me front again I tried to get back to sleep . |
| 10 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 11 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 12 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 13 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd got back . ’ |
| 15 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 16 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 17 | after I 'd got back . |
| 18 | ‘ Each two-person team has been given several overseas markets and told to get back as many packages as possible . |
| 19 | So when the chance came to get back … ‘ |
| 20 | And , as I stooped to get back under cover , I recalled that there would , even from the sanest , be a concession to superstition that would be gone by the morning , a belief that the beginning of the year foreshadowed the character of the rest . |
| 21 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 22 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 23 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 24 | Life at the quarry began to get back to something like normal . |
| 25 | From this point , Witney knuckled down in search of the equaliser and began to get back on top of the game , and eventually on sixty nine minutes reduced the arrears . |
| 26 | Then ‘ started getting back into it ’ , McAllister and Speed were mentioned . |
| 27 | After the mortaring had ceased I decided to get back to Brigade H.Q , probably it would be much quieter there . |
| 28 | He decided to get back between the covers , or under the covers . |
| 29 | Secondly , he needed to get back the coins and the letters without publicity which might reach his wife or the police . |
| 30 | Then life started to get back to normal . |