Example sentences of "got back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ? |
2 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
3 | As soon as he got back to the hut he passed his grandparents a bowl of water each . |
4 | ‘ She told me this morning when she got back to the yacht that they planned on going . |
5 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
6 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
7 | When the two children got back to the tunnel with the men from the farm , they found Bobbie and Jim asleep . |
8 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
9 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
10 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
11 | When she got back to the yard , however , Ricky had other ideas . |
12 | When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me ! |
13 | And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes . |
14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
15 | The car was ready when she got back to the cottage . |
16 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
17 | By the time he got back to the field , all his belongings had gone . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
22 | She would phone her report to Philpott as soon as she got back to the hotel . |
23 | Kolchinsky was waiting in the foyer when Whitlock got back to the hotel . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | ‘ I waited up just to make sure you got back to the hotel safely . |
26 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
27 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The call from Scotland Yard came through half an hour after Wexford got back to the station . |
30 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |