Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 7 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 8 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is premature , then , to say that the western has galloped back to centre screen . |
| 14 | Needs are always related back to capitalism 's demand for the social reproduction of its labour force . |
| 15 | When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem . |
| 16 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 17 | The findings of the survey will be fed back to discussion groups of employees for futher comment . |
| 18 | There he remained until 18 March 1986 when , no doubt because his condition had deteriorated , he was transferred back to hospital . |
| 19 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 20 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 21 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 22 | In addition a sky wave is reflected back to earth over large distances . |
| 23 | Mug with a museum picture on it and he bought about ten post cards , when got back to school . |
| 24 | Within days he was back in London , reporting to his Executive that the strike was hopeless and that the members should be got back to work . |
| 25 | Yesterday he said : ‘ I 'm pleased I 've got back to work as I was getting bored at home . |
| 26 | Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk . |
| 27 | And if she had not dreamed it , how had she got back to bed ? |
| 28 | I could n't shed the fear that it was n't really happening , that at any minute , some legal snag would get me hauled back to prison . |
| 29 | For an unrepentant Hegel , called back to Earth and observing that the two most conspicuous antinomies were the opposed superpowers , might well persist in preferring his perception that nation-states were the vehicle of the dialectic . |
| 30 | to be dragged back to daylight ! |