Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 2 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 3 | He ran back to the window , snatched the keys and tore back to the boot . |
| 4 | He clambered slowly back to his feet and ambled back to the village . |
| 5 | Iris stuck her fork in the earth and trundled off down the garden with her barrow while Melissa went indoors , reported her problem to the telephone engineers and wandered back to the kitchen . |
| 6 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 7 | Ranulf humoured him and , once they were through the Galilee Gate , handed over the promised coins and went back to the guest house . |
| 8 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 9 | He turned off the lights and scurried back to the theatre . |
| 10 | Shrugging off the thoughts with his greatcoat , he threw the latter over one of the two big tables and turned back to the fire . |
| 11 | Techniques that went back to the age of Aristotle and the scholars of Alexandria were married to contemporary nations , among then the idea , conceived in the time of Leibnitz , of a historiography based on the study of original documents ; and the marriage bore fruit . |
| 12 | He glared at Maggie for a second longer and then gathered the reins and turned back to the door . |
| 13 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 14 | Sterling notes in payment would be sent in a parcel to America , only to be exchanged in US banks for dollars and sent back to the UK again . |
| 15 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 16 | He surfaced from his thoughts and turned back to the room . |