Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track . |
| 2 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 3 | By the time I got back to the hospital , I 'd missed the doctors ' rounds . |
| 4 | By the time I got back to the office it was almost six-thirty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was absolutely steaming by the time I got back to the car . |
| 7 | And by the time I get back to the house I expect you to be gone . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But this time she staggered back at the force of his tongue , invading , probing and making her gasp with unwanted pleasure . |
| 10 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 11 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 12 | Cheap advertising , which means the next time you come back to the Centre , will you bring it back ? |
| 13 | ‘ But do n't you think it 's time you got back to the ward ? ’ |
| 14 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's time we went back to the boat . ’ |
| 16 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 17 | By the time they came back to the club house the sun was already setting . |
| 18 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 19 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 20 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 21 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 22 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 23 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 24 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 25 | Then he felt resentful for being made to feel guilty , so that by the time he got back to the Questura all the benefits of his walk had been cancelled out . |
| 26 | By the time he got back to the field , all his belongings had gone . |
| 27 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 28 | By the time he came back into the sitting-room , carrying a couple of tumblers , Lisa had seated herself nervously in one of the armchairs . |