Example sentences of "[vb past] back to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 2 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 3 | About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added . |
| 4 | Drove back to a late dinner . |
| 5 | Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group ! |
| 6 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 7 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 8 | The English figure climbed briefly to 9 per cent in the mid-nineteenth century and then fell back to a mere 1 per cent today . |
| 9 | We fell back to a horizontal position , kissing passionately . |
| 10 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
| 11 | The indicator light above the visor edged back to a normal reading . |