Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun sg] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose , for instance , she had spent the weekend in some South Coast resort and tried to hitch a lift back to London from your father ? ’ |
| 2 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you 've got to catch a train back to Brighton now ? ’ he 'd say hopefully . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to catch a boat back to the mainland and I 'll be in my hotel where you can call me when you 've got a clean shirt for me . ’ |
| 5 | I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus . |
| 6 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 7 | They referred to him as ‘ David ’ and emphasised that he had to catch a plane back to London at midnight . |
| 8 | They then had to hitch a lift back to the cars . |
| 9 | Mr Sutherland and his wife , Anita , who were planning to spend Christmas in the Algarve , were last night trying to organise a flight back to Holland . |
| 10 | I think it 's quite remarkable er that Councillor can come along and blindly say , well we 've had a report back to housing committee , housing committee 's considered this matter and the vast majority of people found it fairly unacceptable but we 'll ignore that , we 'll ignore that , fine , well I s'pose if you want to ignore it that 's fine but I think w we do face here a a key issue and the issue of capital receipts , as you rightly say , is an important one . |
| 11 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 12 | You have to send a dream back to him . |
| 13 | The afternoon of the day following the assassin 's appearance at Marlin 's apartment a blizzard descended upon New York with no little ferocity , conspiring with the inevitable seasonal rush to make finding a flight back to England difficult . |
| 14 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |