Example sentences of "[noun sg] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see , ’ he muttered through clenched teeth , handing the photograph back to Kirov . |
| 2 | Kenneth Baker , the first known Home Secretary to acquire a criminal record while in office , for illegally sending a Zairean refugee back to Zaire . |
| 3 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 4 | ‘ You take this horse back to headquarters . ’ |
| 5 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 6 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 7 | In a state of some exasperation , he was about to organize his car back to Pangbourne , when Felicity appeared round the corner of one of the make-up caravan . |
| 8 | But , to her intense relief , Ven did not pursue his thoughts in that direction , but continued , ‘ By my reckoning , be it a hire car back to Mariánské Láznë or a taxi to the airport , you 'd most likely need aid from someone to help you with language difficulties . ’ |
| 9 | I followed the police car back to base and made a short statement about finding Toby , and then drove over to the hospital . |
| 10 | And now the Rolls-Royce chauffeur is here to take the car back to Crewe . |
| 11 | She switches between spoken word , shouting through a megaphone with a sock in it and chirruping like a sweet but overexcitable nightingale , tracing a lineage back to Delta 5 , The Raincoats and The Slits ( marvellous days I can assure you ) . |
| 12 | Stirling was told that a new operation was being planned and that he must bring his entire force back to base . |
| 13 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 14 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 15 | If Michael Ryan is n't around , if it simply looks impossible , the whole thing , I 'm on the next boat back to Belfast and over the border and safe in Dublin before you know it . ’ |
| 16 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 17 | No , they had no warrant , but they could take him and the boat back to Oban , where a warrant could be obtained No objection ? |
| 18 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 19 | This was followed by a lurch back to civility and a fast-knotted signature , hard to unravel . |
| 20 | Their UK representative is Arvids Natzins of Corby , Northants , and he is appealing to aero clubs worldwide to ‘ twin ’ with LAK and to exchange information as the Latvians urgently need western experience to bring their club back to life and to use western practices . |
| 21 | I waited in the kitchen until it was light enough outside for me to find my way through the deep snow back to Thrushcross Grange . |
| 22 | The switch back to Creole for the single word " though " is particularly striking . |
| 23 | If you cast your mind back to school chemistry lessons , you may recall that a catalyst is a substance able to make a chemical reaction go faster without itself altering that reaction or undergoing change . |
| 24 | Cast your mind back to Day 1 and your first attempt at the elementary exercises I asked you to perform . |
| 25 | She got ready for bed and never looked at herself again but it was hard to bring her mind back to Ana 's problems and the great mystery of the hacienda . |
| 26 | The Corporal had led his men westwards clear of the advancing Japanese , then south and back east from across the Dutch Timor border in a week 's march back to Cailaco ; proving that the Japanese could be outwitted . |
| 27 | VW girl Paula 's short cut back to modelling |
| 28 | Now it 's Howard Wilkinson 's turn to try to bring a European trophy back to Elland Road , as Revie did before him . |
| 29 | Sweden 's National team is here as well as the champions of six other European countries , and from halfway across the world comes a young Maori whom some critics think is good enough to take the trophy back to New Zealand . |
| 30 | It was Porterfield who brought the trophy back to Sunderland in 1973 when he scored the only goal of the game against Leeds . |