Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Reuters news agency reported that KGHM had lost US$70,000,000 and that strikers had been offered one-off payments equivalent to US$100 to US$130 each to go back to work . |
| 3 | Reuters news agency reported that KGHM had lost US$70,000,000 and that strikers had been offered one-off payments equivalent to US$100 to US$130 each to go back to work . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 5 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 6 | As we 've in fact transferred to oil , those coal heaps in many cases have actually been cleaned up and build on , so as oil runs out it perhaps will not be possible to reconvert back to coal use in some factories simply because the space for storage wo n't exist . |
| 7 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 8 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |
| 9 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 10 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 11 | The young teacher who goes from success at school to success at college and university ( like his/her Swedish or Russian counterpart ) is likely to take back into school as a teacher the assumptions which underpinned this personal success . |
| 12 | Shivering , he splashed cold water on his face and washed his hands and then hurried back to his own room , trying to decide whether it would be better to go back to bed , or to get up , get breakfast and do a little study before Senga was up and about . |
| 13 | You might find it useful to look back at exercise 8.3 . |
| 14 | However , if you do take out a foreign currency loan , make certain that it is possible to switch back into sterling at least once , and at short notice without incurring heavy charges , otherwise you are very exposed . |
| 15 | He would then unaccountably find that the world was no longer about to end and would be able to go back to work . |
| 16 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |
| 17 | Do they think you 'll be able to go back to work ? |
| 18 | And is Janet , has Janet been able to go back to work yet ? |
| 19 | If all goes well , you may be able to go back to school when the new year starts in the autumn . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , Bernie , I have n't been able to bring myself to tell you this , but I 'm not sure if I 'll ever be able to go back on stage . |
| 21 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 22 | The idea behind this particular add-on is to provide the user with the feel of really being able to shoot back at screen . |
| 23 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 24 | But unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 25 | but unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 26 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 27 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 28 | Soon , though , Horsewoman Clair Dalton will be establishing a regular service around the town and for a couple of pounds , you 'll be able to step back in time and view the famous architecture in the same way that the Spa Towns Regency Founders did . |
| 29 | Dedicated Wyn has now astounded doctors by bringing Norman to live back at home for the first time in three-and-a-half years . |
| 30 | Audrey , 63 , is desperate to go back to work — campaigning for the United Nations Children 's Fund . |