Example sentences of "[adv] back to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So back to the surgery . |
| 2 | He got out of the car and went up and down on his haunches a few times to ease some of the stiffness from his legs , then started to walk the mile or so back to the hotel gates . |
| 3 | So back to the back to E. |
| 4 | So back to the house , screwdriver delivered to surgery , and home yet again . |
| 5 | This will do you no harm at all , although to be brought gently back to the present by the voice of the therapist is a more satisfactory way . |
| 6 | Pyjamas and track-suits and Ian Botham 's ridiculous dark spectacles under the Melbourne floodlights seemed mercifully remote until Michael Melluish , MCC 's youthful-looking president , just back from Australia , brought our thoughts gently back to the world scene of the '90s . |
| 7 | One advantage of this approach is that you become accustomed to the throttle setting which will allow the model to settle gently back to the ground rather than falling rapidly . |
| 8 | The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate , and then lead it alone back to the food source . |
| 9 | She gave a pleased smile at Sabine 's delighted acceptance , and disappeared purposefully back to the farm . |
| 10 | Fran gave him a watery smile , then turned her attention pointedly back to the schedule to forestall any further questions , and Fred took the hint . |
| 11 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 12 | Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain . |
| 13 | As he expected , this path , newly uncovered by the rockfall , led him impossibly back to the tunnel where Urnst had dropped the glove . |
| 14 | Brought suddenly back to a world of misunderstandings , she stared at his broad shoulders in dismay . |
| 15 | Finally he found his way painfully back to the house , and closed the door . |
| 16 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't mean — not back to the knacker 's ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Honestly , Nutty , tell me , not back to the knacker 's ? ’ |
| 19 | The profit , of course , goes not back to the pension fund but instead into the company 's coffers . |
| 20 | Levering herself tiredly to her feet , she walked despondently back to the cottage . |
| 21 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 22 | It suppresses the blood-sugar level — not just back to the level before the meal , but even lower than the pre-meal level . |
| 23 | ‘ Right then , I 'll away back to the hotel and see how those Australians are settling in . ’ |
| 24 | He sped away back to the car and we could hear his urgent voice , though not the words . |
| 25 | Take it away back to the office . |
| 26 | Vico and Rousseau simply took the biblical imagery one step further back to a pre-Adamite , non-rational , world of peace and innocence . |
| 27 | In order to stop this movement , the top of the pendulum must now be moved sharply to the left to counteract it and then smartly back to a point directly above the helicopter at precisely the moment that the movement stops . |
| 28 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 29 | Clare walked quickly back to the house . |
| 30 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad the industry has reportedly taken to what some people call ‘ tea-bagging , ’ moving their precious chip supply from system to system to prove to customers their box works , then quickly back to the treasure vault . |