Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 3 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 4 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 5 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 6 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 7 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 8 | Both were successful in their task , Phyllisia no longer has to go back to the West Indies and Celie was reunited with all her family . |
| 9 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 10 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 11 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 12 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 13 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 14 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 15 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 16 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 17 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 18 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 19 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 20 | THE discos and snooker halls group , European Leisure , currently embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office investigation , has moved back into the black in its first half-year to 31 December . |
| 21 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 22 | Despite the GLC 's lack of success with London buses and the London underground , the Labour party wants to give back to the GLC not only the buses and the underground but Network SouthEast . |
| 23 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | I begin by reminding hon. Members of the reforms that the Minister has brought back to the House . |
| 25 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 26 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 27 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 28 | Fred Couples , the Americans ' man of the season so far but who did not play last week , has gone back to the top amid a wholesale reshuffle . |
| 29 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 30 | ‘ Why , Rohan has gone back to the Haut-Médoc . |