Example sentences of "[vb -s] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashton looks back to Petipa 's more formal style because it is suitable for Mendelssohn 's music . |
| 2 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 3 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 4 | Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs . |
| 5 | This idea grows in the poems leading up to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , finding full expression in 1923 when he looks back to his seminar paper , speculating that ‘ primitive man ’ may have |
| 6 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 7 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 8 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 9 | Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood . |
| 10 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 11 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 12 | Rachel looks back to her first batches of yogurt : Two gallons , then five gallons , then a churnful , sold to local shops . |
| 13 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 14 | But she also looks back to screaming headlines about a brief , fiery affair with British soccer star George Best , then 26 . |
| 15 | After 18 months of illness and injury the 21-year-old flyer looks back to his best . |
| 16 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 17 | But his superiority is short-lived , for the next line shows a recoil against the self : In the penultimate line Shakespeare achieves a fine double effect , the spelling ‘ eye ’ linking up with the ‘ eyes ’ ( his eyes , be it noted ) in the preceding lines , while the heard sense , ‘ more perjur 'd I ’ looks back to ‘ I am perjur 'd most ’ . |
| 18 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 19 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 20 | A 97 year old woman looks back to pre-First World War Vienna and an extraordinary life , even if a fair amount of it is fabricated . |
| 21 | Instead John looks back to the creation of the world … and then skips over the millenia to the ministry of John the Baptist and to Jesus , as an adult . |
| 22 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 23 | But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming . |
| 24 | The first seventeen chapters of Scale 2 provide a context for this discussion which looks back to Scale 1 . |
| 25 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 26 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 27 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 28 | Without warning one falls out of step and drops back to his place In the crowd . |
| 29 | The course , which crosses a narrow railway bridge and a major road , climbs from 160 feet above sea level to 368 feet , drops back to 303 feet , then climbs again to the finish which is 450 feet above sea level . |
| 30 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |