Example sentences of "able [to-vb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all goes well , you may be able to go back to school when the new year starts in the autumn . |
| 2 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 3 | He would then unaccountably find that the world was no longer about to end and would be able to go back to work . |
| 4 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 5 | ’ And then mercifully he lost interest and fell asleep and I was able to go back to my researches in the library . |
| 6 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 7 | He 's therefore been stuck , living on er friends ' floors for the last few weeks , not being able to go back to his girlfriend and not being able to see his children , er and Madam that 's had an effect on his , on his business as well . |
| 8 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 9 | Do they think you 'll be able to go back to work ? |
| 10 | And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ? |
| 11 | Over and above that , obviously this is where the advantage to the policy holder comes in because obviously if they get a gearbox problem that 's going to cost , say , a hundred and eighty pounds in six months time , they 're not going to be able to go back to the dealer and say look I want you to put this right for me , because obviously it is outside the statutory guarantee . |
| 12 | ‘ I think I 'll be able to 'op back to the bedroom by meself , ’ said Dolly . |
| 13 | Er and you 'd get some feedback to us from the Neighbourhood Watch point of view er and it 's not peculiar to Neighbourhood Watches but er from , from your point of view you also have access to the police in that er eventually there should be a liaison built up , not overnight I mean it wo n't , it wo n't happen tomorrow morning either , but there 'll be a lia liaison between the , the local police officer and yourselves er and if there 's any problems that you may have , you know and you 'll be able to communicate back to them . |
| 14 | Cos then the spin-offs , you know if we can get her to be able to communicate back to us |
| 15 | In 1888 , a decade after total estrangement had come between them , Nietzsche was still able to look back to his days with Wagner at Tribschen as " days of trust , optimism , sublime accidents , profound moments " . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , if I do or say anything that you really object to , you 'll be able to walk back to the house . ’ |
| 17 | He told the major he feared that in retiring to the palace he was imprisoning himself and would never be able to escape back to the real world . |
| 18 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 19 | You may also be able to refer back to a recent rise in merit pay or bonus in your response . |
| 20 | The view expressed by Lawani & Bayer , that self-citations are used as an ego-enhancement , can not be tested in the present case , and should be rejected in the absence of evidence , because it is essential for an author to be able to refer back to the unpublished parts of theses . |
| 21 | erm how long this system will go on for , well in order to be able to refer back to the nineteen nineties , who knows we might , neither of us might be here |
| 22 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 23 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
| 24 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 25 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 26 | With any luck she might be able to get back to the apartment before he found out what had happened . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we 'll be able to get back to normal and replace the plaque , although we 'll have to make sure it 's bolted down so no one does this sort of thing in the future . |
| 28 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 29 | I worked my way — somewhat fearfully , I admit — into a gloomy stand of pines , and there found several fallen branches which I was able to drag back to the cave . |