Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 3 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 5 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 6 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 7 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 8 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 9 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 10 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | oh about six weeks I think he was on er and then he decided he was well enough to go back to his |
| 16 | 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth . |
| 17 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 18 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
| 19 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 20 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 21 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 22 | Nicholas says his delayed return — he was released last Novemebr , but only came back to Britain a fortnight ago — was due to difficulties in getting back his passport from the Goan authorities . |
| 23 | Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter . |
| 24 | The days of smoking a pipe suddenly came back to him , and he realized that he was biting down on his own teeth . |
| 25 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
| 26 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 27 | For the first time in this long climb back to their fortune he began to feel a sort of panic . |
| 28 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 29 | One of the most popular slogans suggests that we need only look back to ‘ Before the War ’ in order to reach the solid ground of tradition and stability . |
| 30 | 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 . |