Example sentences of "[verb] back to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 2 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 3 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 4 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 5 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 6 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 7 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 8 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 9 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 10 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 11 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 12 | Drove back to a late dinner . |
| 13 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 14 | It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance . |
| 15 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 16 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 17 | Once you have taken silk there is no going back to a junior s practice . |
| 18 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 19 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 20 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 21 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 22 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 23 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 24 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 25 | It 's not much fun , you 're chained to the wall — it 's like going back to a medieval library . |
| 26 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 27 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 28 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 29 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 30 | Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ? |