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 | But can she really believe it is possible to go back to Cleveland over whose dead bodies she will return ? |
| 4 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 5 | I hope I am still alive to go back to Palestine again . |
| 6 | He is due to report back to police in March . |
| 7 | I hope I 'm right to come back to Benedict 's . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | He halted , and abruptly changed tack to demand , ‘ You 're prepared to go back to England without that interview ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 15 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dexter was glad to get back to Chester Row . |
| 19 | I was glad to get back to Britain . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 22 | One way and another , I was glad to get back to Bourn after this leave for a rest . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You might find it useful to look back at exercise 8.3 . |
| 25 | ‘ They take so long to get back to pupils , ’ was one comment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was n't safe to go back to Hamburg until Lagerfeld was about eleven or twelve . |
| 28 | He understood how she needed me when war broke out and most of the men were away , he realized I would n't feel able to go back to England and abandon her . |
| 29 | He would then unaccountably find that the world was no longer about to end and would be able to go back to work . |
| 30 | It 'll make the difference between me going back to work and not being able to go back to work . |