Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 2 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 3 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 4 | But can she really believe it is possible to go back to Cleveland over whose dead bodies she will return ? |
| 5 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 6 | I hope I am still alive to go back to Palestine again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is due to report back to police in March . |
| 10 | I hope I 'm right to come back to Benedict 's . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 15 | He halted , and abruptly changed tack to demand , ‘ You 're prepared to go back to England without that interview ? ’ |
| 16 | I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 19 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |
| 20 | It was the Reverend Baron who pointed out to his landlady that her husband and his employers , about whom he had heard a great deal , would be lucky to get back to Florence ‘ before war really takes hold ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dexter was glad to get back to Chester Row . |
| 23 | I was glad to get back to Britain . |
| 24 | Well I think , I think she 'll be that fed up being here all that time , she 'll be glad to get back to America to be quite honest with you Chris , what is there for her to do all that time ? |
| 25 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 26 | One way and another , I was glad to get back to Bourn after this leave for a rest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They said it would be better to go back to Egypt . |
| 30 | You might find it useful to look back at exercise 8.3 . |