Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] back to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead .
2 The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com
3 You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night .
4 When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me !
5 ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park .
11 ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it .
12 Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour .
13 I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car .
14 I got back to the office and explained my doubts to the analyst .
15 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 .
16 By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty .
17 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 .
18 He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty .
19 By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs .
25 When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone .
26 But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’
27 I fled back to the privacy of my own room to retch and vomit .
28 I fled back to the sitting room before they could try and kiss me .
29 But I reported back to the office on Monday morning .
30 I report back to the hotel room , defeated .
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