Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 2 | We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty . |
| 3 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 4 | Royal Gait 's Flat career was then plagued with leg trouble and he was eventually sent to stud only to come back into training three years later . |
| 5 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 6 | The historian-punter would be sitting in bonds ( which have rallied in the past few months ) waiting patiently to switch back to equities , starting cautiously in the middle of this year , and so to ride the bull market of the mid-1990s . |
| 7 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 8 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 9 | When he came back shortly last year he was fast enough to get back to Ruel Fox and let Fox fall over for a penalty . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Brighton was near enough to get back to London the same night , so that was n't really necessary . |
| 11 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
| 12 | ‘ I can remember Nick as a small boy , maybe five , begging me not to go back to London that Monday morning and to stay at home with them . |
| 13 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 14 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 15 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 16 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 17 | The Belgian 's main lesson , though , was probably not to come back to Scotland in February . |
| 18 | Just to come back to Councillor point . |
| 19 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 20 | Then she rang Mrs Chalk , who agreed to curtail her afternoon off to dash back to Armscott , ready to pass on the news if Charles called home first . |
| 21 | Like the couple who left one of the rides early to get back in time to prepare the evening event ; and two hours later we met them — riding in the opposite direction ! |
| 22 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 23 | The Registered Visiting Students enriched our experience by their contributions to College life and we were delighted to welcome back Emma Sky who went out to fly back with Mona Wahbe , from Gaza , who is sponsored by the Oxford Student Scholarship Fund and is famous for her sparkle and animated use of English . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to go back to Bradford and ask the authority one or two questions . |
| 25 | And them other doctors said I were n't to go back up London for no operation not till I was Al , else I 'd be dead as a herring . ’ |
| 26 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The object is to train a bird to fly free , but then to come back for food . |
| 28 | Roger Hardman of broking house James Capel reckons the smaller company is about to come back into fashion in a very big way . |
| 29 | French troops are not about to come back under NATO command . |
| 30 | By May , when a note from Rome told her the Brownings ' party was about to come back to Florence , she felt much more stable . |