Example sentences of "back to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should mean that pesticides will last longer , because they could be used in other areas before resistance spreads , and researchers could switch back to using the original pesticide once resistance has been wiped out , she said . |
| 2 | We are living in a world of dwindling timber resources , and Gerwyn believes that we are going to have to turn back to using what 's around us . |
| 3 | Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars . |
| 4 | Ace smiled , amused that Belle was back to using we instead of I . |
| 5 | Sometimes I think I will go back to using my father 's razor . ’ |
| 6 | Council workers have staged a protest after being told they must go back to using a car park where one of their colleagues was murdered . |
| 7 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 8 | ‘ People will soon go back to drinking proper beer . ’ |
| 9 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 10 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 11 | He went back to looking out the window , sometimes watching the reflection of the room in it . |
| 12 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 13 | I went back to looking at the screen . |
| 14 | ‘ No , honestly , I m-mean it , ’ Killion tried to smile , but felt foolish , so he went back to looking sincere . |
| 15 | What is meant by it and what has happened erm is that people are making , putting an interpretation that back to basics means back to looking at our morals and of course |
| 16 | He went back to tending his cows , and , looking at me as he bent down to pick up his bucket , he said , ‘ I am Monsieur Saulnier . |
| 17 | Then they became bored , and went back to eating the grass . |
| 18 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 19 | Companies that change factors or move back to handling their own invoices frequently cite poor quality of service . |
| 20 | Now , the tricky bit comes back to remembering what Z actually equals , okay ? |
| 21 | I thought when the war was over , you 'd go back to prizefighting . |
| 22 | Though when , clearly a man who felt he had no need to underline anything , by his very silence he made her believe it , she was back to hating him with a vengeance . |
| 23 | But she also looks back to screaming headlines about a brief , fiery affair with British soccer star George Best , then 26 . |
| 24 | Gabriel nodded solemnly and went back to stroking the red velvet of his costume and eating an apple . |
| 25 | Back to jumping and there is a divergence of opinion among the bookmakers about Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup . |
| 26 | I have stopped erm , I stopped once for well over a year and er , I went back to smoking shortly after the death of my mother , who incidentally , died of a smoking related disease . |
| 27 | We will come back to dealing with . |
| 28 | But her mind kept going back to singing , dancing , acting … |
| 29 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 30 | I had to give up caddying when I left school to take up other jobs , but carrying the bags was in my blood and by the time I was twenty-four I was back to caddying full-time . |