Example sentences of "[adj] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll walk into a French bank and say can I exchange these back to sterling and they 'll say oh yes and then charge me five hundred fucking francs again or whatever it is. no five nines , nine eighteen twenty seven thirty six forty five francs . |
| 3 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
| 4 | The Forest 's colourful past is never far away , with a fascinating range of working museums , mines , interpretation centres and ancient houses vividly bringing it all back to life . |
| 5 | Take that back to school . |
| 6 | Go and give that back to daddy . |
| 7 | Thrusting her palms angrily against his chest , she managed to bring them both back to earth again . |