Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd gone back for something for them to do something to it , it is the Metropolitan . |
| 2 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 3 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 4 | The fighting spirit we showed to get back in the game was encourageing , perhaps Batts should have played from the start . |
| 5 | County prosecutor Matthias Heck said : ‘ One of the victims , a man killed as his house was ransacked , was not discovered until we began tracing back through the string of stolen cars . |
| 6 | We were very afraid , and we began to run back to our dressing-room . |
| 7 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 8 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 9 | After dinner , we left to go back to Tarlenheim House . |
| 10 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 11 | We had to go back to Porto to clear Customs back into Spain , and getting decent Met information was proving difficult . |
| 12 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 13 | Unfortunately we had to go back to school today . |
| 14 | When we got there it really was a mess but services had come even from West Chelsea and we had to go back in case any of our unexploded bombs went off and we were needed nearer the river . |
| 15 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 16 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 17 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 18 | We had to get back to Crinan by nightfall , over 30 miles away to the North , and time was running out . |
| 19 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 20 | But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own . |
| 21 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 22 | Well I had another I was in the er I got some much leave you know , then we had to come back to er at back of the er where it er . |
| 23 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 24 | We wanted to get back to where we had been , and that was central to our winter planning . |
| 25 | Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up |