Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 3 | He speaks a few sentences of rapid Thai to the guard , who stares at the two of them , breaks into a comprehending smile and turns away back to his hut at the foot of the drive . |
| 4 | Then , in gathering darkness , drop down from the ridge to Dore Head , where a steep descent leads rapidly back to the security of the valley for that welcome pint at the Wasdale Head Inn . |
| 5 | It makes sense to gear up at the car — as the descent leads logically back to this point . |
| 6 | There is no enjoyment in climbing Whernside in mist or rain but if overtaken by bad weather , a perfect lifeline to safety is provided by a five-mile ridge wall that leads infallibly back to the environs of Ingleton . |
| 7 | Dad said , Keep away from Eladeldi. because everything they see goes straight back to the Capellans . |
| 8 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | She goes silently back to her work . |
| 10 | On the historical tip , disco has an unsevered umbilical cord which still , even in the current phase of Caucasian robot tribalism , connects straight back to African-American Holiness churches within which preaching was delivered in searing , heavenly voices and the flock lifted up their own voices , spoke in strange tongues , rolled in holy fervour and fell backwards when smitten by the presence of the Lord . |
| 11 | Double Eastern Creek crasher Juan Garriga walks angrily back to the pits . |
| 12 | In fact , this theme dates right back to the Albermarle Report of 1960 . |
| 13 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 14 | At this point its provenance comes belatedly back to me . |