Example sentences of "[noun sg] back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 2 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
| 3 | So I 'd left my pouch-seat in the control area to take my troubled mind back to my personal cabin . |
| 4 | Yet these results seem quite astonishing if you cast your mind back to our last appearance at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 5 | I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport . |
| 6 | Remove stems on grape vines that have borne fruit , and cut the vine back to its main framework . |
| 7 | Other countries are prepared to give a commitment that they will move to a single currency without reference back to their domestic Parliaments . |
| 8 | And he hustled the ditcher back to his angry wife waiting in their tenement in Crooked Lane . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not cross-questioning an enemy spy , you know , ’ she flared , and turned her attention back to her revolting biscuit . |
| 10 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 11 | She deposited the tray on the desk , then took her own tea and a small piece of cake back to her former post , slotted a new tape into the machine for the next instalment of the story and settled down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon in peace . |
| 12 | Webb 's move back to his old club should go through within the next 48 hours . |
| 13 | Our leading goal-scorer , Royston Marley , is sadly on the move back to his native West Indies following receipt of special transfer forms . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know , but on the night she died the Lady Prioress asked me to help take the corpse back to her own chamber . |
| 15 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 16 | It filled his mind , and slipped through the evening streets of Dynmouth with him as he rode his bicycle back to his ivy-clad rectory . |
| 17 | In the process he was trying to turn and give the ball back to his own team and he fell awkwardly and landed on his head and twisted his head under his body . |
| 18 | You 'd better hope and pray that you will make it one day back to your own world . |
| 19 | Will the chairman of the Tory party send that money back to its rightful owners , bearing in mind the fact that the Labour party has agreed to send back Maxwell 's money , if it is found to have had any connection with the Mirror group pension fund ? |
| 20 | In 1934 came Having Crossed the Channel , a lighthearted record of a journey through the Vendée , the Landes , the Bordelais , a pilgrimage back to his native Périgord and into his youth , a drive across central France , down to the coast , into Italy and Southern Germany and back via Belgium and Holland . |
| 21 | I suck the blood up , then I roll in the wrapped up monster all the way to the bottom , squash the half-full binbag back on top , tilt the bin back to its upright position , next to the bin with ordinary rubbish in , and replace the lid . |
| 22 | Now Buxtehude is something of a Mecca for other traffic planners paying tribute to what has been achieved and taking the Verkehrsberuhigung message back to their own communities . |
| 23 | Obviously no one is going to want to trace every little statement back to its original source every time : life would be unbearable if we were to do this . |
| 24 | The very word , as Pascoe had half intended , was enough to jerk Dalziel out of his reverie back to his normal state of being . |
| 25 | We will then do a deal with the employer to release the trainee back to us one day per week for training . |
| 26 | The fresh toned singing of such favourites as Alouette , A-roving and the Skye Boat Song must have taken many of the audience back to their own school days . |
| 27 | Then he checked on the car , took the long walk back to his serviced apartment , and spent a restless night staring at the stain patterns on his ceiling . |
| 28 | His great courage at the time eventually earned him the Military Cross , but the harrowing experience was for a long while foremost in his mind and symbolized by the walk back to his commanding officer over a mass of dead German and British soldiers in which his feet scarcely touched the ground . |
| 29 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
| 30 | Of course not all social security benefits may be regarded as part of the remuneration package — e.g. maternity benefits to a single man — in which case the labour supply curve will only shift part of the way back to its original position . |