Example sentences of "when i [verb] back to [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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
11 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
15 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
16 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
21 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
22 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
23 | 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 . |
24 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
25 | I should save that type of language for when I go back to the West Indies . |
26 | It was not at all sweet for Alfred Noyes I learned when I came back to the boat , for he had a bucket of slops emptied on his head . |
27 | When I came back to the 950i it would not accept my instructions . |
28 | Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars . |
29 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
30 | I remember now , it was open when I went back to the car . |