Example sentences of "when he [vb past] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah thought oor Damian was gonny burst a gut laughin' when he cam back fae the school and tellt us whit Miss Mackenzie had had tae pit in the register , the day the incomers signed on . |
| 2 | When he got back into the kitchen the cat , finally courageous in its search for food , was sitting in the corner . |
| 3 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 4 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 5 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 6 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 7 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 8 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |
| 9 | Charles looked a mess when he got back to the car , but Frances made no comment . |
| 10 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 11 | When he got back to the car Ivy took it away from him and opened the other end . |
| 12 | ‘ I think Yorick wrote that whole page when he got back from the party . |
| 13 | When he went back into the recording studio , the results sounded like painful attempts at self-parody or worse . |
| 14 | When he went back into the room , she got her word in first . |
| 15 | Mum says he should have shut the door when he went back into the garage and he would n't have been followed . |
| 16 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |
| 17 | When he went back to the track , Johnson was half the size he was in Seoul . |
| 18 | It was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson , and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 19 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 20 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 22 | Christina was dressed in shorts and a loose cotton shirt when he came back into the room . |
| 23 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |
| 24 | He was soothing someone , his voice gentle , and when he came back into the room there was an altogether different look on his face . |
| 25 | So I told him that when he came back with the policeman . |
| 26 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 27 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 28 | His face was paper-white when he came back to the table . |
| 29 | He felt rather shy and silly , when he came back to the table with Lalage , skipping along and grabbing for his hand as she went . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |