Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] back [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 19 | Put you in the front seat hold on Bryony wants to get back in the buggy . |
| 20 | When it 's all over Tyson wants to melt back into the crowd . |
| 21 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 22 | The sense of rescue undoubtedly gives a special strain of idealization to these comments , but this seems to go back to the childhood experience rather than to be a retrospective gloss . |
| 23 | Seems to go back to the start again . |
| 24 | And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin . |
| 25 | Too often the executive forgets to phone back until the next day . |
| 26 | Where a household seeks to cut back on the use of water , it will be at the risk of hygiene , fewer baths , toilets left unflushed , and less washing of clothes and dishes . |