Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | And the explanations they offer go back to the social wholes which form and constrain individual people . |
| 39 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 42 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 45 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 46 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 47 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 48 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 49 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 50 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 51 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 52 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 53 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 54 | To identify classes you have to go back to the intentional properties of individuals — to the judgments , desires and aspirations which are essential to explaining what they then do in the class struggle . |
| 55 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 56 | ( In order to analyse this , we need to go back to the general model with . ) |
| 57 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 58 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 59 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 60 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |