Example sentences of "he get back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got back to Cambridge Michael ( still a boy of 15 ) read Romanes . |
| 2 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 3 | He collapsed with a dangerous fever and inflammation when he got back to Glasgow . |
| 4 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 5 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 6 | He got back to his own desk and sat , looking at his hands , unable to decide whether to ring her up , or what to say . |
| 7 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 8 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 9 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 10 | ‘ This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table . |
| 11 | I had one letter , written after he got back to Darvel , in which he spoke of how our parting had affected him : ‘ You seemed so big-eyed and pathetic when I left , that it fairly caught my heart ; that exit was the most difficult I 've ever made in my life . ’ |
| 12 | Even Pincher was surprised at the nature of this scoop and when he got back to his office telephoned Admiral Thomson , the secretary of the D-Notice Committee , in case Brown had become over-tired during lunch . |
| 13 | He got back to Old Jewry at four o'clock , to find Morton waiting for him . |
| 14 | In the late afternoon he got back to his room , tired and unsettled . |
| 15 | By the time he got back to Sheila his chest was heaving . |
| 16 | There would be punishment waiting for him when he got back to the house . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Doyle said : ‘ When he got back to his Mercedes Stephen saw a front window had been smashed . |
| 19 | The Grand Old Man offered Niki a contract as team-manager when he got back to Europe . |
| 20 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 21 | When he got back to the hotel Gentle 's first instinct was to call Jude . |
| 22 | He 'd have shat this delirium out of his system , and these events — Jude , the chase , his near rape at the hands of the assassin — would be a tale to tell Klein and Clem and Taylor when he got back to London . |
| 23 | The painting in four contrary modes was there to greet Gentle when he got back to the studio . |
| 24 | When he dozed again , and the memories returned , he did n't fight them , knowing he had a means of scouring them from his system once he got back to England . |
| 25 | When he got back to New Place , he was not a well man . |
| 26 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 27 | He got back to his flat and our people spotted him . |
| 28 | He mentally clocked in all the registration letters ; it would make tracing the owners easy when he got back to his own people . |
| 29 | He got back to normal in no time . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ said O'Rourke , ‘ he was going to sort it all out properly when he got back to England . |