Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 2 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 3 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 4 | Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples , so as to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities . |
| 5 | Rather than moving back to a more conventional approach based on genuine consultation , it had opted for a system giving it greater control . |
| 6 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 7 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 8 | Not only this , but because owls are naturally nocturnal , if I released Dawn during the day , she was quite likely to seek out a suitable roosting place rather than come back to me for food , if the fancy took her . |
| 9 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 10 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 11 | If you get stuck , just put the map away and go back to it later . |
| 12 | He 'd dumped the car a mile away and walked back to his flat , passing less than half a dozen other people along the way . |
| 13 | After giving birth to a child , Watkuweis ran away and journeyed back to her own people . |
| 14 | She pulled away and scrambled back to her side of the seat , but not before he gave her a knowing little smile . |
| 15 | Day Six : With a salute from the dawn chorus , your cruiser leaves at 6.30am and heads back to Cologne . |
| 16 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 17 | Amiss left thankfully and went back to his researches in the library . |
| 18 | Should they not be picked up , the paddlers made for a second rendezvous ( phase five ) further offshore or headed back to the beach to lie up for the following night , when the submarine would come to a different rendezvous . |
| 19 | I put my Summerchild file aside and turn back to the Quality of Life . |
| 20 | She tossed the stone aside and headed back to her car , looking round again , even more aware of the silence and lack of birdsong . |
| 21 | Okay , we 'll come back and pick up with you again , if we may , in a few moments time , but I wanted to change tack once more and go back to the telephones , and waiting to talk to us now is Alan Spong , he 's a director of Lunn Poly , one of the country 's leading travel agents . |
| 22 | There again , that 's the best of both worlds ; I have a chance to go out and play stadiums and arenas and then I get to go home and go back to the way I was , although with a lot more experience under my belt . |
| 23 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 24 | Both could do worse than go back to Tony Crosland and update his ideas to allow for the issues of gender , race , environment , low growth and others of which he was ignorant . |
| 25 | I finished literally breathless but Sam pulled up nonchalantly and trotted back to Tremayne for a report in full voice . |
| 26 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 27 | A lift of an eyebrow , a mute appeal to Auguste , who interpreted it correctly and despatched back to the kitchen for the rejected quail and cutlets . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’ |
| 29 | The head of the British liaison mission in Japan , Alvary Gascoigne , met MacArthur frequently and sent back to London perceptive accounts of their discussions or , to be more accurate . |
| 30 | Ipswich are out to sharpen up in a big way tomorrow and get back to winning ways after a draw and two defeats in the league following the FA Cup fifth round home 4–0 win over Grimsby . |