Example sentences of "he got back [prep] the car " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles looked a mess when he got back to the car , but Frances made no comment . |
| 2 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 3 | Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car . |
| 4 | At 9 o'clock precisely , just as the pips ended and the news began , he got back into the car and drove off . |
| 5 | He got back into the car and she heard the door slam , the engine accelerate and the tyres slide again on the gravel . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ That is a pity ’ , with his smiling , still mouth , and he got back in the car and drove away , and Elizabeth went back in the house , and all the day she cried , and I went away to the hills . |
| 7 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |