Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 2 | As for the rest of NATO , the cause of world peace , not to say sanity , would be served if these countries were to look back to the decision of 1979 and to admit , even to themselves , that they were wrong . |
| 3 | If they were to escape back through the trench they would have to move quickly ; any moment now the sepoys would have crossed the yard from the hospital and outflanked them . |
| 4 | She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them . |
| 5 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 6 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
| 7 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 9 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 10 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 11 | For a detailed criticism of this rule and the problems which it causes , when there is material conflict in the averments made by an appellant and the licensing board , see Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , cit. , where it was held that in the case of a conflict of averments , the court could not go behind what appeared in the board 's pleadings. ( 6 ) In Jack v. Edinburgh Corporation , 1973 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 64 , it was held that where an appeal was considered in circumstances substantially different from those considered by the licensing authority , the proper course was to remit back to the authority for reconsideration . |
| 12 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |
| 13 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 14 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 15 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 16 | Tolonen was to step back into the job , but it seems the new T'ang wants a new man in the post . ’ |
| 17 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |