Example sentences of "[vb -s] back to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea grows in the poems leading up to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , finding full expression in 1923 when he looks back to his seminar paper , speculating that ‘ primitive man ’ may have |
| 2 | Without warning one falls out of step and drops back to his place In the crowd . |
| 3 | He spins back to his family , snatching the napkin from his collar , his chin jutting righteously from beneath a press-lipped mouth . |
| 4 | When Keith gets back to his flat the personal organizer is sitting by the phone leering at him . |
| 5 | The bee then kneads the pollen into these baskets with its middle legs , moulding it around the slender peg that projects from each of them , so that when it flies back to its nest after a successful trip , it has a brilliant yellow button of food attached to each thigh . |
| 6 | Then she flies back to her burrow , carrying the immobilised caterpillar beneath her . |
| 7 | Having seized and anaesthetised one , she does not withdraw her sting but flies back to her burrow with the fly still impaled behind her like a sausage on a stick . |
| 8 | Mrs Tamm turns on her heel and goes back to her desk . |
| 9 | Capenhurst 's involvement in the exercise goes back to its launch five years ago and the Company has given advice and training to scores of youngsters taking part . |
| 10 | ‘ And all his money goes back to his wife . ’ |
| 11 | This goes back to his championing of Switzerland ; in 1809 he tried to challenge the Government with a tract On the Convention of Cintra . |
| 12 | Yeah but the new rules for our age group is you have half of the scrum and then you have the scrumhalf and he puts the ball in and he goes back to his side does n't he ? |
| 13 | A front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Sunday People — A monster goes back to his lair : RETURN OF THE FOX — in which the front-page photograph showed Fairley accompanied by police officers ‘ back at this lair , showing police the scene of one of his evil deeds ’ . |
| 14 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 15 | It goes back to my point that genuineness is the key . |
| 16 | It goes back to our branch and erm everything they tell me it 's completely confidential and erm you would be able to see this and sign whatever I wrote in here as well . |
| 17 | The Wagnerian drama of Oulton 's early work is replaced by a cooler , more formal metre , which refers back to her response to John Dowland 's ‘ Lacrimae ’ . |
| 18 | Again , the executor and administrator have long been regarded as having the deceased 's possession continued in them ; when they assume office their title relates back to his death . |
| 19 | He walks back to his car , and they drive off . |
| 20 | He sticks me with a pink slip and walks back to his car . |
| 21 | Using a flashback technique , Schisgal 's Jimmy moves back to his school and college days , allowing Dustin to play younger again . |
| 22 | Runs back to her lair , if I so much as breathe about the past . |
| 23 | Awful lot of reasons why training i is so important to us an and basically it simply all comes back to our statement is n't it , it it 's to be a sort of feeding insurer to give unsurpassed service . |
| 24 | So there is a drawback , in the sense that if you 're flitting around here there and everywhere , as I am , I ca n't readily do that if I know it 's engaged and it 's on call park , and I go off elsewhere , the call comes back to my handset , there 's nobody there , of course eventually , where would it go ? |
| 25 | And it comes back to my point about the allocation of green fields and the there should be no more of that because there 's already enough allocated . |