Example sentences of "[verb] back to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 2 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 3 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 4 | It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions . |
| 5 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 6 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 7 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 8 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 9 | The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’ |
| 10 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 11 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 12 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 13 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 14 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 15 | On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete . |
| 16 | They note that the molecular hydrogen emission reveals long tail-like structures which project back to a more or less common origin in the vicinity of well-known stellar residents of the Orion molecular cloud ( see cover photo ) . |
| 17 | Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule . |
| 18 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 19 | Drove back to a late dinner . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 21 | At that point then you were airlifted back to a hospital in Aberdeen . |
| 22 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 23 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 24 | I should like to hark back to a comment by my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) who instanced how , in other European nations , the amount of money provided by the national Government to domestic agriculture was very much greater than in this country . |
| 25 | Apart from the porter , who was now heading back to a door marked Waiting Room , the platform was bare . |
| 26 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 27 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 28 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 29 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 30 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |