Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 2 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 3 | It has stuck to an antiquated way of operating that harks back to the days of guild power , and has refused to countenance criticism . |
| 4 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 5 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 6 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 7 | Then we 'd dress and go back to the bar , order |
| 8 | The information is then downloaded and sent back to the customer . |
| 9 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 10 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 11 | ‘ Cheers , lads , ’ Duncan said as we turned and went back to the pillar . |
| 12 | Now , they turned and walked back to the cottage , with the wind behind them . |
| 13 | As she disappeared from view , Barney turned and walked back to the car . |
| 14 | He turned and walked back to the desk . |
| 15 | She turned and ran back to the house before he could say anything else . |
| 16 | He had both a yellow and a red stain across his chest and he was turning around with his arms out appealing for a referee , then he turned and trudged back to the farmhouse for his time penalty . |
| 17 | He turned and headed back to the Montego , pausing as he opened the door . |
| 18 | This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab . |
| 19 | At the beginning of each new shot , the tape first back-tracks over the last few seconds of the previous recording , after which it reverses and returns back to the edit-point during which the camcorder 's electronics find and lock onto the previously recorded control-pulses . |
| 20 | Keith nodded and darted back to the house and Jinny walked on down the path , trying to ignore Rachel , who was in the doorway . |
| 21 | Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 22 | In a closed-loop stepping motor system the instantaneous rotor position is detected and fed back to the control unit . |
| 23 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 24 | Before he received any answer , the arresting policeman shut the door , warned him that he would be arrested for obstruction if he persisted and went back to the driver 's seat . |
| 25 | Riley snarled and went back to the newsroom . |
| 26 | She blushed and went back to the chair in which old Eddy had died . |
| 27 | Florida is the shock of the new jutaposed with '40s and '50s kitsch and the magnificent turn-of-the-century beachfront resorts that date back to the days when the Northern grandees , steamer trunks and servants in tow , would descend by private rail to the exclusive enclaves of Sarasota , Palm Beach and Miami . |
| 28 | Who would mark that fly watching you , transmitting what it saw and heard back to the eye-screen from anywhere within a compass of twenty kilometres ? |
| 29 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 30 | A youth in Union Jack shorts and nothing else whistled approvingly and they laughed and sauntered back to the car . |