Example sentences of "[subord] i get back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You can wait here until I get back from the Khirgiz . ’ |
| 3 | My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , do n't start till I get back into the audience , ’ he commanded . |
| 5 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 8 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 9 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 10 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 11 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 16 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 20 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 21 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 26 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 27 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 28 | for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill . |
| 29 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 30 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |