Example sentences of "[v-ing] back to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 2 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 4 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 5 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 6 | Looking back to the initial aims of the study as delineated by the deputy head , he envisaged both short-term and long-term aims . |
| 7 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 8 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 10 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 11 | The Government investigations paint a picture of decadent fraud flourishing in a climate of lax controls dating back to the 19th century and policed by professional advisors who paid insufficient attention to the task at hand . |
| 12 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 13 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 14 | The aircraft that this intrepid group had used was a large lumbering biplane dating back to the early 1930s . |
| 15 | The veneration of saints has a long history dating back to the early martyrs ( meaning witnesses ) . |
| 16 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 17 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 18 | FAMILY records in Scotland dating back to the early 1800s have played an important role in an international effort to learn more about an inherited form of breast and ovarian cancer . |
| 19 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 20 | Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves . |
| 21 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 22 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 23 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 24 | The series , which features unseen film dating back to the Twenties , celebrates the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb by archeologist Howard Carter . |
| 25 | It obviously believes that an emphasis on its citizens ' common humanity is essential to the Community ( it is very premature to say nation or State ) ; that is an old-fashioned belief , dating back to the nineteenth century , but it is consoling in these jarring , mean-spirited , unidealistic times . |
| 26 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 27 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 28 | To the left of the doorway is the first postbox in Milan , dating back to the Napoleonic era . |
| 29 | Eight miles from the Bauble lies the historic town of Colchester , an ancient town dating back to the 1st century BC with Roman remains , a ruined Norman castle , a 15th-century abbey , museums and excellent shopping facilities . |
| 30 | This is a very special 14-night tour which has only one departure on 19 June — perfectly timed to give a limited number of our customers a chance to attend the opening night of the Verona Opera Season : Verdi 's Don Carlo , performed in the 20,000 seat Roman Arena amphitheatre dating back to the 1st century . |