Example sentences of "when we [vb past] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't see anyone around , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ when we went back to the car . |
| 3 | When we went back to the house , Miss Havisham spoke to me alone . |
| 4 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 5 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 6 | So when we came back to Lebanon , we created this youth movement . ’ |
| 7 | When we came back to Haworth , I could see everything clearly at last — our home , the church , the graveyard , the moors , the faces of my Emily and Anne ! |
| 8 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 9 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 10 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 11 | When we got back to her cottage she put her hand in her bodice and pulled out a string with her key and a whistle attached to it . |
| 12 | When we got back to our door Mrs Jonesy and Mrs Phipps were still loitering , all ears , so Frankie deliberately poured some of the icy water on Mrs Jonesy 's feet . |
| 13 | When we got back to our building everybody else was up and busy cleaning the rooms . |
| 14 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude announced himself rested and refreshed when we got back to Paris . |
| 16 | And anyway when we got back to England er we went to Aldershot , and was n't there long . |
| 17 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 18 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 19 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 20 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 21 | I slept most of the way home only waking when we got back to Debenham . |
| 22 | Fortunately the connections in both directions were not bad , at least when we wanted to travel , though my wife said rude words about the sprint from bus to train to make our connection when we got back to Ruabon . |
| 23 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |