Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hope to raise £1 million for the upkeep of the Manor which dates back to the 13th century . |
| 2 | He will make a recommendation which goes back to the Department of the Environment , who will make the final decision as to whether the building should be listed . |
| 3 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
| 4 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 5 | The moment you see a striped juggling club you think back to the circus . |
| 6 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 7 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 8 | It is well established that objects are perceived to have the same colour despite quite extensive variations in the colour of the light with which they are illuminated and hence the wavelength of the light they reflect back to the retina . |
| 9 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 10 | It is a link which goes back to the Bronze Age and was common throughout the British Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 11 | English winemakers are always having to put up with this kind of jibe , despite possessing a viticultural heritage which dates back to the Romans . |
| 12 | In a kind of panic I walked back to the carob and along the east side of the gulley to the top of the cliff that overlooked the private beach . |
| 13 | Man too has a mechanism of mimicry which goes back to the baby in the cradle answering its mother 's smile , older than any utilization for learning how others feel or how to pick up skills or even for play , and which can get out of control in neurotic echolalia and echopraxia . |
| 14 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 15 | We took them to lunch at the Bull Inn which dates back to the 15th century , and afterwards explored the local market . |
| 16 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 17 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 18 | Thieves probably benefited from a certain popular tolerance which dated back to the time when individual thefts of cattle were a legitimate means of pursuing a dispute . |
| 19 | They took a boat trip to see the seals , and in the evening they went back to the camp and lit a picnic-type disposable barbecue and ate burgers and sausages and fresh crunchy salad they had bought in Blakeney . |
| 20 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
| 21 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 22 | ‘ At midnight I crawled back to the village on my stomach . |
| 23 | Every day we went back to the garage ; and every day that car of ours was in sorrier shape . |
| 24 | That night we went back to the house . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got one thing to tell you and one favour to ask of you , ’ Ian said to Julia the minute they got back to the Amy Roy . |
| 26 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 27 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 28 | In anger she swims back to the landing-stage where he sits , his feet dangling in the water . |
| 29 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 30 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |