Example sentences of "[v-ing] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |
| 32 | HAMPSHIRE County Council planners are awaiting the results of a major archaeological research project which should provide valuable new information on sites , dating back to the Stone Age , located in gravel deposits throughout the area . |
| 33 | I explain that this is due to an old charter , dating back to the time of Sir Hugo de Courcy Rune , third earl of Penge . |
| 34 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 35 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 36 | The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 . |
| 37 | ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history . |
| 38 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 39 | The leasing agreement , ending a border dispute dating back to the partition of Bengal into Indian and Pakistani sections in 1947 , had been formally concluded between India and Bangladesh in 1974 [ see p. 26572 ] . |
| 40 | A strategy based on specialisation and tight cost controls dating back to the rescue period has provided the basis for the turnaround under chief executive Ron Garrick . |
| 41 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 42 | After reciting back to the girl her choice , Joy went back to the counter . |
| 43 | This technology hands control of the searching back to the searcher , without the need for a member of the Library staff to act as an intermediary . |
| 44 | Romerez was pathetic and his interpretation of the new ‘ no passing back to the goalkeeper ’ rule was bloody unique . |
| 45 | Then , head bent , she was hurrying back to the villa , suddenly knowing in her heart what had to be done . |
| 46 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 47 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 48 | Hurrying back to the office he found the would-be client gone and his boss apoplectic . |
| 49 | Cheryl 's three words were hardly finished before Angela was racing back to the farmhouse shouting at the top of her voice . |
| 50 | Olla was bargaining with nightmarish persistence for a carpet , and Mart was considering nipping back to the boat to see if anyone could lend him five hundred quid so he could buy a really wicked sword . |
| 51 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 52 | Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable . |
| 53 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 54 | The picturesque Neumarkt is worth a visit before heading back to the Limmatquai . |
| 55 | It was breathtakingly beautiful , but the sheer drop left them with no option but to make their way into the forest to bypass the hazard before heading back to the river again . |
| 56 | La Dolce vita had turned unimaginably sour and it was not long before the Italian stallions were heading back to the English First Division . |
| 57 | The Doctor and Blake walked down an alleyway heading back to the entrance to hell . |
| 58 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 59 | Twenty minutes later they were on their way , the three of them piling into the big black Mercedes and heading back to the railway station . |
| 60 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |