Example sentences of "when i [verb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's 3 a.m. when I get back to the cottage . |
| 4 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 5 | When I get back to the room she is still in bed , lying naked on her belly beneath the sheet . |
| 6 | There 's a pile of papers which I must read when I get back to the hotel , ’ he said , and grimaced . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 12 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 16 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 17 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 22 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 23 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 26 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |
| 27 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 28 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 29 | Then , when I come back with the welding torch , no sign of the bastard . |
| 30 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |