Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 2 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 3 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 4 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 5 | oh about six weeks I think he was on er and then he decided he was well enough to go back to his |
| 6 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
| 7 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 8 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 9 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 10 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 11 | He has a tendency to give abstract theory in unnecessarily dense language without examples ; this is difficult to absorb , and consequently , when we reach the extended analyses in Chapter 5 , there is a temptation constantly to flick back to the earlier chapters to try to clarify the theory . |
| 12 | On the other hand , Brighton was near enough to get back to London the same night , so that was n't really necessary . |
| 13 | When he came back shortly last year he was fast enough to get back to Ruel Fox and let Fox fall over for a penalty . |
| 14 | Right so to get back to what I gave you , you 'll take three off . |
| 15 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 16 | So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may . |
| 17 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 18 | This is a time to go forward with conviction and confidence , not to go back to the failure and bitter controversies of the past . |
| 19 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 20 | He agreed not to go back to the house and got a friend to collect some of his belongings . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're not to go back to that place any more ! |
| 22 | But she was to experience yet more joy , since it seemed they were not to go back to their hotel straight away . |
| 23 | ‘ I can remember Nick as a small boy , maybe five , begging me not to go back to London that Monday morning and to stay at home with them . |
| 24 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 25 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 26 | And I 'm really being enormously selfish at this moment , because what I want is not Richard fussing around — and he does fuss , you know — but just to go back to the terrace and have tea . |
| 27 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 28 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 29 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 30 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |