Example sentences of "got back to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 32 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |
| 33 | I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst . |
| 34 | She would phone her report to Philpott as soon as she got back to the hotel . |
| 35 | Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine . |
| 36 | Kolchinsky was waiting in the foyer when Whitlock got back to the hotel . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She got back to the Lycée at five past eleven ; the doors were not yet shut , and she crept in safely , under the protection of a large party returned from the Opera . |
| 39 | When she got back to the college , she went to the library and looked once more at all the reference books pertaining to Sebastian Denham , in the hope of finding the nature of his wife 's professional distinctions , but she was not successful . |
| 40 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 41 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 44 | When the two children got back to the tunnel with the men from the farm , they found Bobbie and Jim asleep . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 47 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 48 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 49 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 50 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 51 | When Dyson got back to the office old Eddy Moulton had subsided into sleep again . |
| 52 | When Dyson and Bob got back to the office , he was at his desk already , typing . |
| 53 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 54 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 55 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 56 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 57 | She decided that as soon as she got back to the flat , she 'd call him and apologize . |
| 58 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 59 | I got back to The Milebrook next day . |
| 60 | 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 . |