Example sentences of "[vb past] back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the fire Altovar Limited moved back to its old premises . |
| 2 | At the time of the trial she fled back to her wealthy family in Malaysia . |
| 3 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 4 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 5 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 6 | After modulating through the pastel palette , kitchen equipment came back to its original key — exciting , brilliant white — with a square , boxy outline . |
| 7 | I came back to my earlier proposition . |
| 8 | But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] . |
| 9 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 10 | Newman dropped off Paula at her flat in Putney , then drove back to his own place . |
| 11 | About to return it , she frowned instead and turned back to her talkative friends . |
| 12 | Feeling one day the need for something more aggressive than the healing ball , I again turned back to my military roots . |
| 13 | Nodding to the elderly man , who smiled and turned back to his own companion , he handed Ellie her drink , and sat beside her with his own pint . |
| 14 | He leaned over Emily 's shoulder to see what she was reading and turned back to his own copy of the paper . |
| 15 | Spruce turned back to his own table . |
| 16 | He had inherited when he became Mamur Zapt a vast network of spies , informers and paid agents which dated back to his Ottoman predecessors and which the British saw no reason to disturb . |
| 17 | The things that I picked up on was erm when , when you started , I thought that overall I mean you were getting the message across and , and overall that , you know , erm there was a lot of the areas that you tackled very well , and you reverted back to your old self and you did a lot better . |
| 18 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 19 | She then walked back to our original starting point and retraced our morning route along the Gorm track , finally arriving for lunch only ten minutes late but having walked nearly nine miles . |
| 20 | Funny thing was , he thought to himself , as he walked back to his own house , they might not have been after me at all . |
| 21 | Bonaventure agreed , stretched , and walked back to his favourite place at the base of the pillar . |
| 22 | Peace escaped back to his own office . |
| 23 | As soon as I had finished speaking , the small emergency wireless station was dismantled , and I rushed back to my two sergeants to get ready to leave . |
| 24 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 25 | At the cessation of hostilities in 1945 , the works got back to its pre-war role . |
| 26 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 27 | She must concentrate hard so she could report in full detail when she got back to her eager students . |
| 28 | He got back to his own desk and sat , looking at his hands , unable to decide whether to ring her up , or what to say . |
| 29 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 30 | He mentally clocked in all the registration letters ; it would make tracing the owners easy when he got back to his own people . |