Example sentences of "we [verb] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 2 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 3 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 6 | We reported back to the school secretary , who after a long pause said , ‘ I 'm sorry , we posted that order direct to the publisher , who was offering a 50% discount . ’ |
| 7 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |
| 8 | We heard at least one yacht being warned off on VHF as we headed back to the Sunsail base in Corsica . |
| 9 | From the oast house we wandered back to the brewhouse where the copper boil was progressing satisfactorily and the previous days ' brews were frothing cheerfully away in their tall , cylindrical fermenters . |
| 10 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 11 | We swam back to the boat , I climbed up the steps fastened near the stern , and gave her a helping hand . |
| 12 | He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Then we cut back to the newsreader . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started . |
| 19 | After the Man City match we walked back to the Adelphi but it was shut . |
| 20 | We walked back to the quayside , Benjamin still disconsolate . |
| 21 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 22 | Benjamin linked his arm through mine and we walked back to the manor house . |
| 23 | We walked back to the terrace . |
| 24 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 25 | I protested as we walked back to the flat . |
| 26 | In the late afternoon the weather cleared and we walked back to the youth hostel . |
| 27 | We walked back to the rickshaw , saying ‘ well ’ to one another , not knowing what else to say . |
| 28 | They need a touch of resin he decides , but as he has none it will have to wait until we get back to the camp . |
| 29 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 30 | We get back to the subject of dating . |