Example sentences of "[verb] back to find " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come back to find his church safe but Godric gone . |
| 2 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 3 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 4 | The night of December 16th 1943 , became known as Black Thursday , because a real pea-soup fog descended on eastern England while the squadrons were out , so that they came back to find every air field shrouded in gloom and had to land all over the place . |
| 5 | He set off into the fog to find out where he was , and came back to find Tess fast asleep . |
| 6 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 7 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 8 | The study reaches back to find some classical historical instances of cooking and doctoring , fudging and fiddling from Hipparchus to Gregor Mendel . |
| 9 | He turned back to find Delaney slumped against the wall . |
| 10 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 11 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you 'd better hurry back to find her . |
| 13 | Seeing no sign of him and deciding it would be a bit theatrical to go peering under the furniture , she swung back to find Leo lounging easily in the doorway , one shoulder against the door-frame , arms folded across his chest . |
| 14 | Startled , she glanced back to find a man clad in the scarlet overalls and white crash helmet of a driver standing a few yards away . |
| 15 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 16 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 17 | You ca n't when you 've got the numbers just like this it does n't seem to work out so we 've got to go back to find out what it means . |
| 18 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |
| 19 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 20 | Conservatives were concerned that an old lady can go and collect her pension without coming back to find her gas meter has been robbed , and that a mother can send her child round to a local shop without feat that the child will be molested . |
| 21 | Most women would have gone to pieces , coming back to find this . ’ |
| 22 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
| 23 | And then put the phone down , and waited for us to ring back to find out what she was demanding . |
| 24 | ‘ I never dreamed I 'd come back to find you at the head of a company . |
| 25 | It was a long time before I could believe that it was really Kāli , come back to find me . |
| 26 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |
| 27 | I have been out of europe for about six weeks and come back to find all this transfer mania going on . |
| 28 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 29 | Often on the beach , when he 'd run on ahead looking for flat pebbles to skim over the sea , he 'd glanced back to find them walking with their arms around one another . |
| 30 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |