Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 2 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 3 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 4 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | And then gone back to work next morning . |
| 7 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 8 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 9 | She would take another day off and then go back to work . |
| 10 | Gradually the untreated smoke and grime turned Nordhausen into a dirty city , with dirty people , all with little to do except work and drink and then go back to work . |
| 11 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 12 | for about thirty thousand or something like that and then go back to work and just pay your own mortgage off |
| 13 | I think it should go to the D S O board to be able to look into , and then come back to policy and resources . |
| 14 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 15 | It remained at this value for a further 20 minutes before rising again to 3.5 ( 0.5 ) by 30 minutes and then falling back to baseline by 2.5 hours . |
| 16 | The foolishness in ‘ Futility ’ being the foolishness of men going out killing each other and then coming back to nature and hoping that nature can sort out the mess they have made . |
| 17 | Yet sometimes , as in the English Mummers ' Play , ‘ it is the representative of the good principle that is killed by the evil , and afterwards brought back to life ’ . |
| 18 | I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar . ’ |