Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 2 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 3 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 4 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 5 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 6 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 7 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 8 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 9 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 10 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 11 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 12 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 13 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 14 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 15 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 16 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 17 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 19 | I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans . |
| 20 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 21 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 22 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 23 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 24 | And the explanations they offer go back to the social wholes which form and constrain individual people . |
| 25 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 26 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 27 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 28 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 29 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 30 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |