Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finish of radiotherapy caused values to fall back towards baseline after four weeks . |
| 2 | There will be a growing need for experienced businesspeople to go back to school . |
| 3 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 4 | The machine was n't fit for this purpose so he had to good case to go back to Dixons and ask either for a replacement or his money back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 7 | As she was treated in hospital , the terrified teenager had confessed : ‘ I do n't know if I will have the nerve to go back to work . |
| 8 | And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow . |
| 9 | When rudder is applied , the nose of the glider yaws to the side until the force produced by the rudder is balanced by the tendency for the aircraft to swing back into line with the airflow . |
| 10 | He wants Garry to go back to Berenice , and it 's important he does go , at once . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Asking the superintendent to come back after lunch ? ’ |
| 12 | Whitlock paused in the doorway to look back at Rachel . |
| 13 | The Marshal would see it only as an attempt to get back at Ebert . |
| 14 | Over the past few months , governments have been considering action to cut back on emissions of greenhouse gases . |
| 15 | Apparently Katharine is now bullying her parents to go back to Catherston for some more lessons ! |
| 16 | Thank you President and Congress for granting me the honour to report back on behalf of the ten G M B Members in the European Parliament . |
| 17 | Asked whether Britain might opt for membership of this looser body if it rejected progress towards full European union , Mr Andriessen said : ‘ It is always open to countries to go back to Efta if they wish . ’ |
| 18 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 19 | It 's still sixteen , Joe Joe said he did nay reckon he 's going to get the management to shift back to October |
| 20 | The way was open for the Cabinet committee to get back to work . |
| 21 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 22 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 23 | There is no need to go back to square one ; just a few steps backward is all that is needed . |
| 24 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 25 | If , by then , it is obvious that there is plenty of room to turn back into wind and land , this is the sensible thing to do . |
| 26 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 27 | With one final intimate raking of her naked form as if unable to help himself , he allowed the curtain to swish back into place . |
| 28 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 29 | I was feeling the need to get back to bed and to sleep . |
| 30 | ‘ Would not your children like a nice pet to take back to England ? ’ |