Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex turned back to the little blighter . |
| 2 | As though aware that her control was slipping again , Mrs Wallington turned back to the disciplined criss-cross of string and concentrated with almost palpable force . |
| 3 | Rex flicked back to the appropriate page and read aloud . |
| 4 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 5 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 6 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 7 | Ruth turned back to the fifth-floor window as the stranger appeared to be heading her way . |
| 8 | Crowther looked back to the previous and deeply influential report , also by the Central Advisory Council , on Early Leaving ( 1954 ) . |
| 9 | Let's go back and tell Faye to go back to the nursing agency with a more open mind . ’ |
| 10 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 11 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 12 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 13 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 14 | About 150 delegates attended the Grozny meeting , where militant speeches directed against both Russia and Georgia harked back to the brief existence ( in 1918 ) of an independent Mountain Republic . |
| 15 | Delaney turned back to the electronic display . |
| 16 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 17 | Constance tiptoed back to the French windows . |
| 18 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 19 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 20 | The Soviet Union was conscious of the historic record of confrontation and suspicion between Russia and Japan extending back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 21 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |
| 22 | Wycliffe turned back to the dead man . |
| 23 | The Sephardic community in Belgrade dates back to the early sixteenth century and was well established in the commercial life of the city . |
| 24 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 25 | So I think Jimmy traced back to the first |
| 26 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |
| 27 | The origins of Gdansk go back to the 10th Century and its historic centre has been preserved in its ancient style . |
| 28 | The parish church of St Michael dates back to the 13th century . |