Example sentences of "to go back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 2 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 3 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 4 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 5 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 6 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 7 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 8 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 9 | Jos shook his head , turning to go back to the van . |
| 10 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 11 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 12 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 13 | So , I have always to go back to the beginning if I want to sort something out . |
| 14 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 15 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 16 | This is a time to go forward with conviction and confidence , not to go back to the failure and bitter controversies of the past . |
| 17 | I remember wondering if it would be better to go back to the West End , for another fare , or go on to Liverpool Street . |
| 18 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 19 | The sense of rescue undoubtedly gives a special strain of idealization to these comments , but this seems to go back to the childhood experience rather than to be a retrospective gloss . |
| 20 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 21 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 22 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 23 | A single order may not be sufficient for this latter aim , and it is advisable to go back to the shelves some months after the new stock has reached them and decide whether a further order is necessary . |
| 24 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 25 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 26 | There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city . |
| 27 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 28 | One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’ |
| 29 | I was glad I had made arrangements with a City Temple friend to go back to the flat in Southwark to collect the last of my wanted books etc . |
| 30 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |