Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] back to " in BNC.

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1 I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe .
2 There will be a growing need for experienced businesspeople to go back to school .
3 Of course to go back to something I think Kirsty or somebody said , erm this could also happen un unconsciously could n't it ?
4 If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job .
5 ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own .
6 DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again .
7 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 . ’
8 The machine was n't fit for this purpose so he had to good case to go back to Dixons and ask either for a replacement or his money back .
9 The investigators have already tested children in primary schools in Peterborough and have had permission to go back to further test these as well as to test in Bedford and Luton .
10 And last , but not least , everyone in Congress has a responsibility to go back to their workplaces and communities and begin the campaign , not next year , or the year after , but next week .
11 Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise .
12 Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house .
13 In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker .
14 Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country .
15 Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception .
16 Dunbar was grinning in high content as he wheeled his horse to trot back to his own division .
17 As she was treated in hospital , the terrified teenager had confessed : ‘ I do n't know if I will have the nerve to go back to work .
18 ‘ Just iced water , thanks , ’ he said the next time she screwed up enough nerve to go back to his table .
19 And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow .
20 He wants Garry to go back to Berenice , and it 's important he does go , at once . ’
21 ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’
22 At the other end , Charity smiled and waited for her listeners to come back to her .
23 ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago .
24 Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment .
25 They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China .
26 There 's the fencing to get back to . ’
27 I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations .
28 The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain .
29 Gloucestershire cricketer , David ’ Syd ’ Lawrence is making a last-ditch attempt to get back to full fitness after his knee injury .
30 It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant .
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