Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 2 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 4 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 5 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 6 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 7 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 8 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 9 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 10 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 11 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 12 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 13 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 14 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 15 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 16 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 17 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |