Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 2 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 3 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 4 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 5 | When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door . |
| 6 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 7 | But a minute or two later , as they turned out of the car park and headed for the road that led back to the villa , Ronni gave way to the growing desolation within her . |
| 8 | The front end , continually revised in the Dino range , was tidied up again , this time with pop-up headlamps , deleting the sole styling detail that dated back to the late '50s and early '60s . |
| 9 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 10 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 11 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 12 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 13 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Techniques that went back to the age of Aristotle and the scholars of Alexandria were married to contemporary nations , among then the idea , conceived in the time of Leibnitz , of a historiography based on the study of original documents ; and the marriage bore fruit . |
| 15 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 16 | Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car . |
| 17 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sara mounted her bicycle and rode back to the cottage . |
| 20 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 21 | There must be adequate and timely arrangements for the operating experience on other PWR plants to be collected , analysed and passed back to the operators with any necessary retraining . |
| 22 | Halfway through cockpit checks the crew decided that the aircraft was unserviceable , so they all got out and tramped back to the Squadron offices . |
| 23 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 24 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
| 25 | But by the time the police had secured the exemption and got back to the brothel , the keeper would have changed his nationality and they would have to start all over again . |
| 26 | 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 . . |
| 27 | Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee . |
| 28 | Then one afternoon Louise Raymond visited Len Seager in hospital and reported back to the rest of the team . |
| 29 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 30 | She said nothing , but instead left the two young people by the window and moved back to the duty manager 's desk . |