Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] back to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go back to the north . |
| 4 | I do n't want to go back to the Evans 's , I really do n't , I never did want to be there but it 's worse now , not better . |
| 5 | I do n't want to go back to the house yet , a bit , not yet . " |
| 6 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 7 | She did n't want to go back to the lies Kate told whenever she asked her what the matter was , to the telephone ringing and the queer , high-pitched voice insisting it was the box-office of the Essoldo Cinema . |
| 8 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 9 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 11 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 12 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 13 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 14 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 15 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 16 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 17 | Debbie had said she did n't want to come back to the States . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 19 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 20 | Unless we want to go back to the Stone Age , zero pollution is not practical . ’ |
| 21 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 22 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 24 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 25 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 30 | 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 . |