Example sentences of "when we [verb] back " 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 | We were surprised to see this fantastic marble everywhere — on the table tops , on the benches , on the counters — but when we went back there three years later the place was a total mess . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't see anyone around , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ when we went back to the car . |
| 4 | When we went back to the house , Miss Havisham spoke to me alone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was quite difficult to get flights at this time of year ; when we first applied they said , come back when we know our schedules , and when we went back , they said sorry , nearly everything is booked up . |
| 8 | and when we went back again he 'd even , I know |
| 9 | when we went back in the kitchen and it 's hot but |
| 10 | We may have a glimpse of sympathetic magic in ‘ when we came back , late , from the hyacinth garden , / Your arms full , and your hair wet … |
| 11 | What put the top hat on it was , when we came back , Debbie sat on the sofa and cried ‘ Mum , I 'm so fed up of being amnesic ’ . |
| 12 | In the interval of my concert , he took the cellos away to ensure that the passage was perfect when we came back to play it — now there is real dedication and real generosity ! |
| 13 | Although , when we came back from one of our canters , Cool Ground was very bright . |
| 14 | After describing the shooting , Dlamini added : ‘ When we came back [ to Johannesburg from a hiding place in Sebokeng township ] on Wednesday , Johannes said he must fetch the money from Winnie Mandela on Friday . |
| 15 | So when we came back to Lebanon , we created this youth movement . ’ |
| 16 | Then we 'd go on a ten- to twenty-mile march and when we came back it would all be weighed again . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | When we came back , Ben Gunn was waiting for us . |
| 19 | And he came , when we came back again , he brought us along the erm main road back and er and er he we visited er Bridge . |
| 20 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
| 21 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 22 | Mum knew about us and mentioned it to Sarah when we came back here after your wedding . ’ |
| 23 | When we came back , Heathcliff was putting a bandage on Hindley 's wrist . |
| 24 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 25 | In my judgment , the election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess — Order . |
| 26 | Shortly before yesterday 's debate on the economy you told the House that in your opinion the general election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess . |
| 27 | Of course when we came back and discovered Andrew and co had arrived , he 'd parked on the verge and I had a dig at Andrew about it . |
| 28 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 29 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 30 | When we came back from Diva |