Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 7 | 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 . |