Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE has to go back to Julius Caesar to understand Rome 's interest in Britain and the attitudes of the tribes of south-eastern Britain to Rome . |
| 2 | Now they need to go back , this needs to go back on section two does n't it ? |
| 3 | ‘ He wants to go back to Africa to make amends and because he really liked the place , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 4 | who wants to go back in town at half past eleven at night ? |
| 5 | The scenario depicted is that decreased hospital stay means that older people ( or indeed patients of any age ) are being sent home with high levels of dependency ; community services/informal carers can not cope and the person has to come back into hospital . |
| 6 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |
| 7 | This child wants to get back to school , she wants to be in the Christmas play . ’ |
| 8 | But when , several months later , the harassed new mum plans to go back to work , where should she turn to for advice ? |
| 9 | The humiliation proves too much and he plans to move back to America . |
| 10 | is a qualified accountant ( FCCA ) and plans to move back to Suffolk with his family to live at Glemsford near Sudbury . |
| 11 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 12 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 13 | The speech confirmed hints from Mr Clinton that , despite his status-quo budget , he plans to cut back on enforcement efforts , especially overseas , in favour of trying to reduce demand at home . |
| 14 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 15 | Business prepares to bounce back from recession The nation is feeling positive despite some hard times , reports JOHN GREENLEES |
| 16 | Soon it subsides and he seems to come back to life . |
| 17 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 18 | Short aims to get back on course in chess battle |
| 19 | He hopes to go back to Tanzania at Christmas to see the donations in use . |
| 20 | How blessed you are to live in such a lovely part of England — It is a source of IMMENSE pleasure to me that JONATHAN is such a keen mountaineer and is to make his home here — it will be nice for John in his old age if he , John , deigns to come back to Britain , the native land of which is so very critical , but to whose change or improvement he does what ? ? ? ? |
| 21 | He had the right mixture of politics and economics , cleverly interwoven with deadly figures and Government pledges to throw back in Norman Lamont 's face . |
| 22 | Children need to learn that y is a substitute letter for i at the end of words , and that it likes to change back to i when it can , that is , when there is something after it . |
| 23 | As the colonies prosper wealth begins to flow back to Ulthuan . |
| 24 | Squeeze past the parked cars to look at the wonderful little shops , which specialize in tin toys , dolls ' houses and cinema posters then turn right into Marché aux Fromages to get back to Grand'Place . |