Example sentences of "[to-vb] back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 2 | It took us the rest of the day to struggle back to our last bivouac , I remembered how Stephen Venables had dropped his rucksack , our stove and tent poles at 23,000 feet on Rimo 1 , and knew how the poor fellow felt : devastated . |
| 3 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 4 | Afterwards she was forced to walk back to her own barracks on a freezing winter night , naked but for an anorak round her shoulders . |
| 5 | And she would be free to escape back to her own life and sanity once more . |
| 6 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 7 | Dunbar was grinning in high content as he wheeled his horse to trot back to his own division . |
| 8 | Today they 're preparing to drive back to their tented barracks on the coast in Split , to pick up another consignment of supplies . |
| 9 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 10 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 11 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 12 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 13 | Whether he did or did not , he was back in very short order saying that the crew had decided to go back to their old squadron , and I cleared him to return to his squadron that same afternoon . |
| 14 | The company has had to go back to its pre-poll tax database , known as the Historic Voters Roll . |
| 15 | Jean : When Mrs B told Julie to go back to her own country she went and told Mrs C ( the deputy headmistress ) , Mrs C said that Mrs B was depressed because her husband was dying . |
| 16 | Turning to go back to her own house to oversee her own arrangements for departure , she realised how little good the summer had done Mrs Browning . |
| 17 | She wants to go back to her own people with her savings and what we have given her and cut a bit of a figure . |
| 18 | For a while Broad and Tavaré defended well , but then suddenly Holding , for the first time in over a year , decided to go back to his full-length run-up , without even having told Lloyd what he intended to do . |
| 19 | Ken had to go back to his own life and Orton and Halliwell to theirs . |
| 20 | I 'd dearly love to go back to my real home , but er unfortunately there 's no way I could pay the mortgage on it . |
| 21 | No need to go back to my own phone — I can use one of these . |
| 22 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 23 | To go back to my earlier diagram , what happens erm in a , in a mutation , let me find the right one , is that the change occurs in , in these in these bases . |
| 24 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 25 | While you may be tempted to go back to your new pet if it does cry repeatedly , try to avoid this temptation . |
| 26 | To go back to your own life Mr , erm you could you er were you always interested in engineering as a boy ? |
| 27 | From the parents ' point of view , to go back to your original question about whether it 's good for children to be helped at home , of course it 's , it does n't make any sense to stop helping your child just because he 's reached the age of five . |
| 28 | I want to go back to your original question that you asked Bob Morgan , because you were asking him erm why there was a reaction to a gipsy site . |
| 29 | You may want to go back to your original data and indicate what you want a certain sound to be ow that you have checked it , and from now on you would use correct and consistent symbolisation . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to go back to your damned graveyard , ’ he snorted . |