Example sentences of "got back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where 's Tom ? ’ she noticed her brothers absence as soon as she got back to the house . |
| 2 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
| 3 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 4 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 5 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 6 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 7 | Morton got back to the headquarters building of the City of London police , in Old Jewry , soon after lunch . |
| 8 | She had gone out to the drug store to get a bottle of milk for Maria 's bedtime cocoa , and when she got back to the suite , Bernie was in her section taking off Maria 's dress . |
| 9 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 15 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We were preparing for what we thought might be our future and so we got back to the people who 'd singled us out , and a guy called Keith Wilson , who was eventually responsible for recording and co-producing our first Fleetwood Mac album , got us down and we put an album out , which kind of came and went . |
| 18 | When she got back to the yard , however , Ricky had other ideas . |
| 19 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 20 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 21 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 22 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 23 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 24 | The car was ready when she got back to the cottage . |
| 25 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 26 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 27 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 30 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |