Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 3 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 4 | To discover why Lindsey chose this particular aircraft from among many other types that were available , one has to go back to 1967 and Lindsey 's purchase of the ‘ Me 108 ’ . |
| 5 | ONE has to go back to Julius Caesar to understand Rome 's interest in Britain and the attitudes of the tribes of south-eastern Britain to Rome . |
| 6 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 7 | ‘ Like everything else about Jean-Claude , one has to go back to his roots in la Sologne . |
| 8 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 9 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 10 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 11 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 12 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 13 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 14 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 15 | The average patron arrives at the Spike in one taxi but needs to go back to his sock in two . |
| 16 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 17 | He says he wants to go back to his country , but he ca n't . |
| 18 | ‘ He wants to go back to Africa to make amends and because he really liked the place , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 19 | She wants to go back to her own people with her savings and what we have given her and cut a bit of a figure . |
| 20 | She says she wants to go back to be with her family in Denmark . |
| 21 | She wants to go back to . |
| 22 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 23 | She wants to go back to . |
| 24 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 25 | And he said he 's telling him point blank that he 's , if there 's any problems with invoices or anything , you have to deal with Andrew , he has to come back to me and deal with me direct ! |
| 26 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |
| 27 | Despite the GLC 's lack of success with London buses and the London underground , the Labour party wants to give back to the GLC not only the buses and the underground but Network SouthEast . |
| 28 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 29 | Now Mr MacCari says he wants to get back to concentrating on his job at Stoke City . |
| 30 | This child wants to get back to school , she wants to be in the Christmas play . ’ |