Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 2 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 3 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 4 | Perhaps Flaubert 's interest was encouraged by the discovery ( or indeed the memory ) that in 1837 the king 's sarcophagus had been excavated by the British and shipped back to London . |
| 5 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 6 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 7 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 8 | And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union . |
| 9 | Our exercise periods were indeed much longer now and I padded around the room as much as I could , but Brian would often get bored and go back to a book . |
| 10 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 11 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |
| 12 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 13 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 14 | So clear all that and go back to what you wanted to do . |
| 15 | The house itself is , not surprisingly , a little younger and dates back to the 16th century when it was owned by the great-great-aunt of President George Washington . |
| 16 | And if you ca n't stand the heat get out quick and come back to it . |
| 17 | If you get stuck , leave a blank and come back to that section later . |
| 18 | The doctors and nurses who brought the sick and wounded back to Britain have dismissed claims that the whole operation was a public relations exercise . |
| 19 | She earned a degree from the Sacred Heart Academy in Washington in 1917 and went back to New York , starring in Penrod , Dear Brutus , On The Firing Line and The Wren . |
| 20 | She thought she was crying the words aloud , but all that came back to her was her voice — flat , low , saying , ‘ She 's my aunt . |
| 21 | But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home . |
| 22 | It begins in 1964 and works back to the author 's birth . |
| 23 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 24 | A far narrower range of beliefs are attributable to the dog , specifically those that hark back to what we could immediately read off from similar behaviour in the case of a human being ; thus the dog believes his master is at the door but it would be a false move in the game also to ask if it believed that its master would be late the next day . |
| 25 | In older gardens , particularly those that date back to Edwardian or Victorian times , you might be lucky enough to inherit paths laid in old blue paving bricks , or some of those delightful ‘ rope ’ edging tiles that cost a small fortune to buy today . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 27 | But when the slogans appeared on the wall of two mosques and camel dung was dropped on the entrance of one of them they were very angry and came back to Owen and said that these were godless young and should be put down . |
| 28 | ‘ We duly became airborne and flew back to base with no further trouble . |
| 29 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 30 | In the morning Sam rose first and went back to her own room to dress . |