Example sentences of "she [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 2 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |
| 3 | Finally , grabbing the bedcover and wrapping it round herself , she crept back to the head of the stairs . |
| 4 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 5 | ‘ Where 's Tom ? ’ she noticed her brothers absence as soon as she got back to the house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When she got back to the yard , however , Ricky had other ideas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 10 | The car was ready when she got back to the cottage . |
| 11 | She would phone her report to Philpott as soon as she got back to the hotel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She decided that as soon as she got back to the flat , she 'd call him and apologize . |
| 16 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 17 | When she got back to the flats , the leather jacket had gone . |
| 18 | When asked about this revolt the Prime Minister replied that he ‘ thought speed was important and hoped she would send for Lord Home immediately-as soon as she got back to the Palace ’ . |
| 19 | When she got back to the office , both Dr Kent and Sara had gone , and Staff Nurse Target was anxious to start the drugs round with her . |
| 20 | When she got back to the living-room the fire had been replenished , and a small table was set ready for them to eat . |
| 21 | ‘ She told me this morning when she got back to the yacht that they planned on going . |
| 22 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 23 | When she got back to the office , Damian called her in abruptly , his voice hard on the intercom . |
| 24 | Purpose hard in her , she staggered back to the flat sheet of the blueness that was spread to catch the warmth of the sun and in her frozen hand was a knife sharpened by erosion from a rock . |
| 25 | Voluntarily then she moved back to the couch from which she had sprung up earlier . |
| 26 | Guy was sitting at the pool 's edge as she swam back to the shallow end . |
| 27 | She jerked back to the realisation that Niall was speaking . |
| 28 | Later , she wandered back to the stage . |
| 29 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 30 | She slunk back to the interrogation room . |