Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 2 | I think we should go back by the paths . |
| 3 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 4 | For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each . |
| 5 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 6 | Later , when Anne was in bed , Marilla said to her brother , ‘ She must go back to the children 's home tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | She must get back to The Tamarisks . |
| 8 | After one alarmed glance at her apoplectic face , Mr Loveitt said smoothly : ‘ I think we should get back to the facts . |
| 9 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll walk back to the stables with you , ’ she suggested . |
| 11 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 12 | let you know they 'll come back from the letters . |
| 13 | He 'd stand in the doorway and watch Nathan tinkering with his bike and then , when Nathan looked round , he 'd step back into the shadows . |
| 14 | She could go back to the Rosenblooms , to the big house outside Glasgow where she had lived as one of the family for twelve years . |
| 15 | You could , you could go back on the Permitabs if you want . |
| 16 | Then we 'd come back to the digs , wash our hair , have a wash if we were lucky , then on to the theatre . |
| 17 | The captain 's ‘ Let's go back to the butts , gentlemen ’ is the signal to start a further two hours of shooting . |
| 18 | Let's go back to the terrorists just er just just briefly , Clare whatever you say , that 's a p potent picture and it was a deliberate photo opportunity . |
| 19 | ‘ All right , let's go back to the events in the Market Square . |
| 20 | Then Rachel would flit back along the alleyways to Richmond Palace . ’ |
| 21 | She would go back to the lodgings , lie down on the lumpy bed and rest , and try again tomorrow . |
| 22 | I hope that Sibbald and colleagues will go back to the practices in their survey to examine this important issue and to explain the uneven distribution of counsellors working in general practice . |
| 23 | New President Alán García says Peru will pay back to the banks no more than 10 per cent of its annual export earnings . |
| 24 | Privately , however , reaction at the higher end of the trade is positive , with the feeling that potential purchasers will turn back to the dealers for better service at more or less comparable prices . |
| 25 | Others are bound to arise ; not least because , as the Soviet Union cracks apart , documents and material taken there after the war may drift back into the hands of historians . |
| 26 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 27 | Then if the crowds return we can go back to the salaries we deserve ’ |
| 28 | We can dust off the Rambo movies , and Mikhail Gorbachev can sit back amid the ruins of the Soviet empire and watch how a superpower really behaves . |