Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] back to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 2 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 3 | I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window . |
| 4 | If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 7 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 8 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
| 9 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 12 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 13 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 14 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 19 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 23 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 24 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 25 | Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna . |
| 26 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 27 | A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago . |
| 28 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 29 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 30 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |