Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 3 | I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar . ’ |
| 4 | We duly went back to Sun , which claims there is to a deal , just like it said , has been for months and that it is moving lots of product . |
| 5 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 6 | As I 've said , I 've been on H R T for three years and , I have since went back to work after being on H R T I do n't think I 'm an old hag ! |
| 7 | The power of the sun would then be harvested by an array of silicon or gallium arsenide solar cells and then beamed back to earth by microwave and converted into low-frequency , alternating current electricity and fed into the USA 's grid . |
| 8 | At 14 , Hurston left home to work as a housemaid , then went back to school and on to university , where she studied literature and later anthropology . |
| 9 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 10 | He got up , then went back to bed again . |
| 11 | We then went back to gate 6 . |
| 12 | I almost ran back to South London , to Jamila 's place . |
| 13 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 14 | The they certainly moved back to radicalization much more quickly than Mao had , had expected |
| 15 | AN AILING 68-year-old Seattle woman miraculously came back to life after an emergency medical team who rushed to her home declared her dead and her cold body had been taken to a funeral home . |
| 16 | The plants which seemed to have died during the winter 's cold — the snapdragon , the hibiscus and the frangipani — miraculously sprang back to life and back into bloom . |
| 17 | The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth . |
| 18 | With her gone , he never went back to church . |