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Example sentences for "got back"

  • When we got back again, and he lifted me out, and carried me--so easily!

  • When I got back to my breakfast in the Boar's coffee-room, I found Mr. Pumblechook conversing with the landlord.

  • When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honor, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.

  • I had been engaged the greater part of the day fixing the points for another base line, as I was fearful that the angles of our first were too acute, and found that the party had got back on my return to the camp.

  • To our infinite relief we got back to the creek at half-past two, after a ride of about 37 miles.

  • The evening had closed in before we got back to the cart, but our course was fortunately true, and having given poor Punch as liberal a draught as reason would justify we laid down to rest.

  • Our host wanted us to try some coconut water when we got back to town.

  • I got back to the $2 a week days when father insisted I save at least 10 cents a week out of that.

  • Neither Jim nor Sam ever knew how he got back to their room, but Jim was overcome with the enormity of his offense, while Sam was in an agony of laughter.

  • After an hour's hard work we got back, with ice half an inch thick on the oars.

  • After that it was really a question of how soonest and easiest she could be got back to Riverdale.

  • Wall, we got back to our abode perfectly tuckered out, but perfectly happy.

  • It wuz very early, for Josiah had got to go clear to Loontown on business, and I wuz goin' to stay with the childern till he got back.

  • The snow was flying when Dale got back to his camp in the mountains.

  • Reckon I got back heah in time to see you-all married?

  • When he got back to civilization he always had to adjust his thoughts to the ideas of people.

  • Anson, in surprise, when he got back to the camp.

  • When he got back there, he fell headlong into the extra session of Congress called to repeal the Silver Act.

  • The case was no better when he got back to London and went through his last season.

  • Before he got back to Quincy, the summer was already half over, and in another six weeks the effects of President Grant's character showed themselves.

  • I heard of their start when I got back to Salt Lake City, after being away for some time among the hills.

  • I heard he had gone down just before I got back here.

  • Waal, I told him we was going up to the Shoshone Sierra, and intended to hunt about and to come back, maybe by the Yellowstone and then by the Bear rivers, and that we would take the price of the goods out in trade when we got back.

  • He said, only yesterday, when he got back, that he couldn't stay away from home any longer.

  • This perhaps was not the greatest stunt in the world, but it got back at the officer who had told me, "Yes, we take anything over here.

  • When we got back to rest billets, we found that our Brigade was in the trenches (another agreeable surprise), and that an attack was contemplated.

  • I got back just in time to issue our third meal, which consisted of hot tea, I rinsed out my dixie and returned it to the cookhouse, and went back to the billet with an exhilarated feeling that my day's labor was done.

  • I hate to tell you how I was kidded by the boys when I got back, but it was good and plenty.

  • When we got back to the Harbor, it had quite changed its appearance.

  • That seemed kind of funny, and when I got back on the boat we unhitched the cords and pulled up the canvas sign.

  • When we got back to the yacht, there was the Chief, peacefully reading a last year's magazine.

  • I got back in my car and drove almost to Rotan.

  • Anyway, we got back to the Royston farm that last time and stayed until we moved to Arkansas five years later.

  • When I got back to my lodging I ordered a travelling carriage and four, and the next morning, before eight o'clock, I called for M.

  • When we got back to Soleure, Madame told me how pleased she was that I liked the house; and seizing the opportunity, I said that I hoped they would often do me the honour of dining with me.

  • When I got back to my inn I found my carriage ready, and I got in and drove to the meeting-place, and ordered a good supper for four, and an hour later my guests arrived.

  • When I got back to my room, I found Le Duc occupied in unpacking my mails; and telling him to give my linen to Madame Dubois, I went into a pretty cabinet adjoining, where there was a desk and all materials necessary for writing.

  • When I got back Le Duc told me that I had been wise to slip away, as my masquerade had become generally known, and the whole house, including the landlord, had been eagerly waiting to see me play the part of waiter.

  • After my usual perilous equestrian act I got back to the Transport Farm, and having performed the usual routine of washing, shaving, eating and drinking, blossomed forth into our four days' rest again.

  • I got back to our cottage, crawled into the hole in the floor, and thought things over.

  • When I got back to billets the next time I determined to make a finished wash drawing of the scene, and send it to some paper or other in England.

  • I got back to my lair and shouted for my servant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "got back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about two hundred yards; being either; but after; deemed proper; divine things; full colour; got any; got back; got him; got home; got into; got out; got the; gradual development; graduated from; inexhaustible supply; like face; olive trees; quite naturally; save him; severely punished; she was; should proceed; steps leading; submarine coaxial; transact business