Example sentences of "[verb] back to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ready to come back to the unreal world ? ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 34 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 35 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 36 | One leaves the activity by the same means , directed back to the appropriate page of the main text . |
| 37 | I pedalled back to the High Street , past Magdalen and across the bridge to the Plain . |
| 38 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 39 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 40 | Looking back to the initial aims of the study as delineated by the deputy head , he envisaged both short-term and long-term aims . |
| 41 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 42 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 43 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 44 | If the dramatic frame is an enquiry or an investigation the children might well be creating still images , which they can then bring back to the whole group . |
| 45 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 46 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 47 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 48 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 49 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 50 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 51 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 52 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 53 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 54 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 55 | The Government investigations paint a picture of decadent fraud flourishing in a climate of lax controls dating back to the 19th century and policed by professional advisors who paid insufficient attention to the task at hand . |
| 56 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 57 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 58 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 59 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 60 | It obviously believes that an emphasis on its citizens ' common humanity is essential to the Community ( it is very premature to say nation or State ) ; that is an old-fashioned belief , dating back to the nineteenth century , but it is consoling in these jarring , mean-spirited , unidealistic times . |