Example sentences of "have [verb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 2 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 3 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 4 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 5 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 7 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
| 9 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 10 | I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans . |
| 11 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 12 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 13 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 14 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 15 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 17 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 18 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |
| 19 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 20 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 21 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 22 | A second " terrorist " had fled back to the eastern bank of the River Jordan . |
| 23 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 24 | To identify classes you have to go back to the intentional properties of individuals — to the judgments , desires and aspirations which are essential to explaining what they then do in the class struggle . |
| 25 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 26 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 27 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 28 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 29 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 30 | And it 's gone back to the old prices . |