Example sentences of "[verb] back to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 2 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 3 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 4 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 5 | Millie moved back to the window now . |
| 6 | After a moment or two Hosanna moved back to the step again . |
| 7 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 8 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 9 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 10 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 11 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 12 | Although the area can then be cleaned , the puppy is likely to be attracted back to the site again unless you can remove the underlying odour . |
| 13 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |
| 14 | From the oast house we wandered back to the brewhouse where the copper boil was progressing satisfactorily and the previous days ' brews were frothing cheerfully away in their tall , cylindrical fermenters . |
| 15 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 16 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 17 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 18 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 19 | When it was dark he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 20 | It was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson , and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 21 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 22 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 23 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 25 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 26 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 27 | Having been re-assembled for the hand-over , the Vampire will now be carefully broken down again and transported back to the Museum where it will be placed on display once more after re-assembly . |
| 28 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 29 | The sound waves bounce off objects in their path and are reflected back to the dolphin where they are channelled through oil-filled sinuses in the lower jaw to the inner ear . |
| 30 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |