Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life .
2 For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) .
3 Politics has come back to life as well .
4 While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin .
5 It is premature , then , to say that the western has galloped back to centre screen .
6 Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy .
7 The story has slipped back to page two , though , I notice .
8 DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion .
9 SALLY Faber , wife of Westbury Tory MP David Faber , has gone back to school to prepare for her new job as a weather girl with the London News Network , the new London television service .
10 In the meantime , Adam has gone back to school to study for his A levels .
11 A ten year old girl who had a heart and lung transplant just four months ago has gone back to school .
12 Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work .
13 She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried .
14 Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is
15 ‘ It has helped to take me away from tennis when I have time to relax , ’ said Stich who has climbed back to world no 9 .
16 Having got back to bed for a few hours , at 0800 Captain Moore arrives at his office in the RMP Headquarters , which is housed in the 1936 Olympic Stadium Barracks , and by mid-morning is feeling a bit smug about the noticeable dent in the paperwork on his desk .
17 They might not be in , Mum will 've gone to the supermarket and Dad 'll have gone back to work .
18 If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ?
19 Joe should have gone back to school the previous week but it was being used as an evacuation centre .
20 Right we seem to have gone back to subject four there do n't we , eh where are we now ?
21 The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead .
22 She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life .
23 It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul .
24 He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe .
25 When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action .
26 Yesterday he said : ‘ I 'm pleased I 've got back to work as I was getting bored at home .
27 It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance .
28 Now that they 've gone back to school she has a bit of a job with the I 've got ta go you know , I said we 'll have so many people round talking you know she said he 'd got a terrible !
29 They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature .
30 The teachers had suddenly ended their strike , and the four youngest children had gone back to school .
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