Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 2 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 3 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 4 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 5 | I have to admit that after three years of using Q&A I have n't memorized all of the mainly function key-driven keyboard shortcuts , but those that I ca n't remember are easily brought back to mind with a tap of the F1 key which lists them . |
| 6 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 7 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 8 | Needs are always related back to capitalism 's demand for the social reproduction of its labour force . |
| 9 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 10 | There he was gradually nursed back to health , but another eight years passed before he became champion again . |
| 11 | Any wounded or distressed creatures that are handed to us are carefully nursed back to health whilst our breeding programmes produce an ever-increased number of baby marine creatures , many of which are then released into the wild . |
| 12 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 13 | He concluded , ‘ Aung San is now brought back to party line . |
| 14 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 15 | The miners were eventually forced back to work — some might claim they were virtually ‘ starved back ’ by the operation of the social security benefit rules — because there was no apparent chance of success . |
| 16 | In the silence of the return journey she had almost slipped back to tranquillity and , oddly enough , it had helped to have him there beside her . |
| 17 | A wild and neglected garden , lovingly brought back to life . |
| 18 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 19 | And then gone back to work next morning . |
| 20 | If this is then converted back to sterling at the end of the year at the spot rate e 1 = 1.91 , we get 1.133 . |
| 21 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 22 | Five ( 6% ) prompted patients changed their minds about accepting prompting and were subsequently transferred back to hospital outpatients . |
| 23 | Yet sometimes , as in the English Mummers ' Play , ‘ it is the representative of the good principle that is killed by the evil , and afterwards brought back to life ’ . |
| 24 | And he 's only relatively recently gone back to work . |
| 25 | and sort of fairly recently gone back to home to South Africa where he |