Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 2 | When are you due to go back to the hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 4 | But can she really believe it is possible to go back to Cleveland over whose dead bodies she will return ? |
| 5 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 6 | I hope I am still alive to go back to Palestine again . |
| 7 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 8 | He is due to report back to police in March . |
| 9 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 10 | I hope I 'm right to come back to Benedict 's . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 12 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 13 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 14 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 15 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 16 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 17 | He halted , and abruptly changed tack to demand , ‘ You 're prepared to go back to England without that interview ? ’ |
| 18 | Finding the car park empty , he was too embarrassed to go back to the pub and ask for help . |
| 19 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 20 | It is pointless.and harmful to hark back to how things used to be , although the conflict of loyalties may be hard to handle . |
| 21 | And she would be free to escape back to her own life and sanity once more . |
| 22 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 23 | This ensures that they would not be prepared to renegotiate back to the original agreement . |
| 24 | But she would be relieved to get back to her own bright flat again , going about her normal Saturday chores . |
| 25 | ‘ Look — ’ now she was finding it all but impossible to get back to her feet , and the embarrassment of having him witness her futile struggles was fast becoming unbearable ‘ — I 'm quite happy just to potter about by myself here ; you really do n't have to hang around me . ’ |
| 26 | As we 've in fact transferred to oil , those coal heaps in many cases have actually been cleaned up and build on , so as oil runs out it perhaps will not be possible to reconvert back to coal use in some factories simply because the space for storage wo n't exist . |
| 27 | One of those walks stretches alongside the estuary , and at one point it is possible to look back to the solidity and placidity of the harbour and out , across Doom Bar , to an unpredictable sea . |
| 28 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 29 | If you feel fit to go back to the inn , Mr Hambro , I 'll be glad to drive you and Miss Rossignol round there . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |