Example sentences of "[to-vb] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so we 'll have to come back to keyboard and you can change it , I think . |
| 2 | When , sensing that he had left her alone in more ways than one , the woman asked him to come back to bed , he had not turned to look at her but instead remained silent a moment longer . |
| 3 | She called to Plummer to come back to bed but he did n't answer . |
| 4 | He wanted to tell her to come back to bed , to put the child down now he was quiet . |
| 5 | But to come back to enmity . |
| 6 | Just to come back to Councillor point . |
| 7 | Was n't there some talk about Tricia wanting to come back to work ? |
| 8 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 9 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 10 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 11 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 12 | Soon it subsides and he seems to come back to life . |
| 13 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 14 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 15 | I 'd like to come back to policy on migration chair , and I 'm grateful to Mr for pointing out that nineteen eighty is thirteen years ag away and things have moved on in every respect demographically . |
| 16 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 17 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 18 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 19 | " Oh , thank you , beautiful Dawn Maiden , but once I am down there I sha n't wish to come back to earth ! " |
| 20 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 21 | The Association has agreed to revert back to Management . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It caused him to question both , and to look back to nature for inspiration : ‘ yet nature is invariable ’ he said . |
| 24 | He swung round and began to walk back to Church Row . |
| 25 | no , by the time I 've get home I 'll have to walk back to school again |
| 26 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 27 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 28 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding the ScotRail money , the LRC contribution will still be a lot higher than has so far been authorised , and I will need to report back to Committee . |
| 30 | A special Home Office committee is already looking at the problem with orders to report back to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke within the next few months . |