Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 2 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 3 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 4 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 5 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 9 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 14 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 15 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 16 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 19 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 20 | And it 's gone back to the old prices . |