Example sentences of "we [verb] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop . |
| 32 | Then we cut back to the newsreader . |
| 33 | We came back with the ice creams and we sat there , just sitting there , all in a row . |
| 34 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 35 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 36 | In my judgment , the election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess — Order . |
| 37 | Shortly before yesterday 's debate on the economy you told the House that in your opinion the general election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess . |
| 38 | So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . |
| 39 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 40 | We drove back across the States at the end of the summer of 1941 and then waited until we could get a passage home , which was n't until the following March . |
| 41 | We drove back down the West side , through the Waipoua Forest which is still quite extensive and contains a few giant kauris , magnificent , almost unbelievably huge when you get up to them . |
| 42 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 43 | It was Hallowe'en , but the rows of surburban semis near the theatre as we drove back in the coach looked profoundly unmagical . |
| 44 | When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit . |
| 45 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 46 | We turned back through the village again and up to Claro . |
| 47 | But the ‘ mozzies ’ finally won the day and we retreated back to the safety of the ‘ bus ’ to lick our wounds and to hunt out our supplies of insect repellent ! |
| 48 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 49 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 50 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 51 | And quite clearly there is a lot of work that needs to be done because if we look back on the discussion this afternoon , er this morning er and this evening , quite clearly there are conflicting views and conflicting interpretations about various criteria , various elements of information that should er er should go into the mix . |
| 52 | If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) . |
| 53 | This is ambitious , and if we look back at the scope of the information skills , it is subversive to present-day teaching . |
| 54 | Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ . |
| 55 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 56 | As the date of the General Election approaches , we look back at the Tories ' record on housing and mortgage rates . |
| 57 | When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started . |
| 58 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 59 | As we walked back down the track , the nightingale was still singing . |
| 60 | After the Man City match we walked back to the Adelphi but it was shut . |