Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 2 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 5 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , that 'll be why Boz has come back to Wychwood . |
| 7 | Well I 'm pleased to hear that it 's come back to Shrewsbury . |
| 8 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd never have come back to Liverpool only the firm sent me here to fix something up on the docks twelve months before this lot started , so I was just unlucky . ’ |
| 10 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 11 | This week our guest on Sharing Time is Erlend who is one of the survivors of the Piper Alpha disaster and is one who has come back to Orkney this last week , staying with his family here in Orkney . |
| 12 | His only son — well provided in those days with cash — had come back to Europe in the early ‘ thirties with little in his mind except escape . |
| 13 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 14 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 15 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 16 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 17 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 18 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 19 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 20 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 21 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 22 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 23 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 24 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 25 | Had n't everything gone wrong from the moment she had come back to Eastlake ? |
| 26 | I 've come back to England to watch you spend it . ’ |
| 27 | They also believe that , like Zacchaeus , many people who have come back to God desire to make amends for their past . |
| 28 | My parents , who had come back to Hastings from their exile in Somerset to fish and clean , as they always did , had braved all and were coming to the wedding . |
| 29 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 30 | The dummy was dropped back to Steve yesterday at the printers and that 's now gon na be done . |