Example sentences of "[subord] they get back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point .
2 When they get back to the start again .
3 It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel .
4 When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom .
5 When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished .
6 Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains .
7 When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room .
8 And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes .
9 When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’
10 ‘ And now , ’ she said much later , as they got back into the car , ‘ for Lord Byron .
11 They went outside and as they got back into the Kubelwagen Devlin said , ‘ Crete and the Afrika Korps , I see , and Stalingrad .
12 And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across .
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