Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] got back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 4 | He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills . |
| 5 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 6 | My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays . |
| 7 | we were lucky cos it did n't start to rain did it till we got back in the coach ? so that was well planned . |
| 8 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 9 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 16 | When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 20 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 21 | He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it . |
| 26 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 27 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 30 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |