Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] back to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 2 | She was in the cafeteria a short while later , steadfastly keeping her back to the huge windows with their wonderful view of the skiers outside , when a hand descended on to her shoulder , making her start in alarm . |
| 3 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 4 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 5 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 6 | The subject of this exasperated thought sent him a look of enquiry , bringing him back to the present debate . |
| 7 | The road would be turning east soon , and taking them back to the main road so that they could turn south and walk back to the house . |
| 8 | In the meantime , this is Lola , handing you back to the scheduled program . ’ |
| 9 | Given the dating technique of the time Halling Man was thought to have been Aurignacian , taking him back to the closing phase of the Ice Age . |
| 10 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 11 | I would then propose to add it to the agenda of the Transport Working Group before bringing it back to the Chief Executive 's Management Group . |
| 12 | I did n't want to have to keep carrying her back to the same perch for the rest of her life , although she did occasionally fly to the perch herself , she was so used to it . |
| 13 | I not only require total dependence , sabiha tieghi , ’ he teased , steering her back to the shadowy bed , and drawing her into his arms against the rumpled linen sheets . |