Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill is reported back to the whole House as amended . |
| 2 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 3 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 4 | The Faculty also calls for group losses surrendered ( within a ‘ 75% group ’ ) , which can not be relieved in the same accounting period , to be allowed to be carried back to an earlier accounting period . |
| 5 | When the penis is stimulated by touch , the " feeling message " is carried back to the spinal cord at the sacral level from which the nerves emerge . |
| 6 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 7 | And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now . |
| 8 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 9 | There is no shortage of information on this and the more general tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact , which all dated back to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War , when crisis succeeded crisis : Greece , Berlin , Korea , Cuba , Viet Nam , the Horn of Africa , Angola , Central America , Afghanistan . |
| 10 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 11 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 12 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 14 | Assessment is likely to have educational value , however , only if the outcome is fed back to the senior house officer . |
| 15 | When the project is completed , the group members are transferred back to the basic structure , or they are given operating responsibility for the new product in a new unit . |
| 16 | After several days on the intensive care unit , Guy , still unconscious , was transferred back to the original hospital closer to his home . |
| 17 | Matters previous transferred from the High Court under s 42 may be transferred back to the High Court ( s 42(4) ) . |
| 18 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 19 | Are they there , I think they 've been er moved back to the same place . |
| 20 | Smith had therefore turned back to an earlier idea of Carl Gauss . |
| 21 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 22 | So whilst the intersections of logical spaces at an elemental level will allow the elemental functions to be maintained , these must be reflected back to the next higher level in the system to establish whether the required function of that assembly space has been achieved or corrupted . |
| 23 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 24 | were writing , however , there has emerged an argument that capital is actually increasingly finding itself drawn back to the European countries . |
| 25 | One pair of curtains drawn back to the two outer corners of the bay will look attractive , but they will cut down the light from the side windows . |
| 26 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |
| 27 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 28 | The updated file can then be copied back to the central system , by modem and telephone if necessary . |
| 29 | Note that only some of the additional text rows created by lexicographic activity in the Working-Set are copied back to the Main Database . |
| 30 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |