Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But behind the scenes the 86-year-old reformer is believed to be working to bring his economic programme back to life . |
| 2 | As inexorable as gravity brings the high jumper back to earth , so doth the winnings of the gambler return unto him who gave them . |
| 3 | Then before she resumed her snail-slow progress back to bed she steeled herself to look in the mirror above the washbasin . |
| 4 | Cowans on a free transfer back to Villa . |
| 5 | Cowans on a free transfer back to Villa . |
| 6 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 7 | Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . |
| 8 | Reloading the Walther , he waited for the lavatory to flush before going through to help the old man back to bed . |
| 9 | Hall seems not to have fulfilled his promise to cost the winning designs , as Hunt , who presumably would have made the estimates , did not examine the plans , and there is no evidence of Hall having reported this information back to Parliament . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's when we get called in from this patrol back to base . |
| 11 | Stirling was told that a new operation was being planned and that he must bring his entire force back to base . |
| 12 | I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts . |
| 13 | Another version says that the idea of tapes being wiped was just a wheeze to get a comfortable taxi back to base ! |
| 14 | She left the ferry after the brief trip back to Earth . |
| 15 | THE GREAT trek back to school begins in earnest this week . |
| 16 | He underwent three operations on the long haul back to fitness and has been a helpless onlooker as Leeds floundered in their title defence . |
| 17 | VW girl Paula 's short cut back to modelling |
| 18 | Today the wall serves as a safe guide back to civilisation in mist or unkind weather and lost souls on Gragareth have good reason to be grateful for its existence . |
| 19 | I have my shit , bury and cover it over like a cat , with earth and leaves , trying to ensure a faster conversion back to nature . |
| 20 | If the target 's directors decide to withdraw the scheme before the hearing of the petition because a more attractive offer is made , this will force the first bidder back to square one . |
| 21 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 22 | Equation ( 5.7 ) uses rm to discount the bond 's cash flows back to the next coupon payment and then discounts the value at that date back to date t . |
| 23 | It surely seems worth investigating the possibility that whatever it is about power lines that flips a normal brain into depression may flip a depressed brain back to normality . |
| 24 | Sergeant Ninez was playing with his compass and map , measuring distances and calculating the best route back to Orange . |
| 25 | Dorothy Newman nudged her fellow conspirator back to reality , then they ran at breakneck speed to their respective homes . |
| 26 | Stirling thus decided to abandon operations for a while and send a strong party back to base to collect stores and the new vehicles he had requested . |
| 27 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 28 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |