Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the soft evening light , I retraced my steps back to town , soothed by the songs of blackbirds and chaffinches . |
| 2 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 3 | I think I might take my flute back to school as well . |
| 4 | I was one of the first to leave , making my way back to Number 11 unobserved . |
| 5 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 6 | And then I 'd be wearing my cap back to front for a day or so . |
| 7 | The sound man struggles for a couple of numbers to actually pull their frequencies back to earth . |
| 8 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not necessary , madame , ’ Jenna began , switching her eyes back to Marguerite with a great effort . |
| 10 | Their UK representative is Arvids Natzins of Corby , Northants , and he is appealing to aero clubs worldwide to ‘ twin ’ with LAK and to exchange information as the Latvians urgently need western experience to bring their club back to life and to use western practices . |
| 11 | Bothwell 's men had to carry their leader back to Hermitage , where he was greeted by the mortifying news that the prisoners had overpowered their guards and taken charge of the castle . |
| 12 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 13 | After debriefing the other agencies and packing their equipment , the EOD team leave and make their way back to base . |
| 14 | Indeed , a number of men had already made their way back to camp , ostensibly to re-kindle their torches , but in reality to resume drinking . |
| 15 | The children , from Corporation Road Junior School , were on their way back to school from a swimming session at the Dolphin Centre . |
| 16 | Most of them find their way back to garden centres to be re-sold . |
| 17 | Some of this money may find its way back to building societies , which can then lend it out again to other customers . |
| 18 | The party found its way back to civilization in a starving condition on an improvised raft . |
| 19 | Yeah well , do n't forget now she 's on her way back to school , see ! |
| 20 | As her father began his fight back to health , Diana 's mother took a hand in guiding her career . |
| 21 | Reluctantly he brought his attention back to business . |
| 22 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 23 | Schwer , 24 , is bidding to reroute his career back to championship status against rugged Frenchman Farid Benredjeb , in his first outing since losing his crowns to Paul Burke in February . |
| 24 | His road back to traditionalism could appear the only way to escape a theological disintegration which threatened not just Vatican I , but Chalcedon and Nicaea as well . |
| 25 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |
| 26 | Picking up the glass ball on his way back to bed , Mungo was still haunted by the episode in the forest . |
| 27 | Masterminding the event is an art history student , Daniel Marks , who successfully fought his way back to health after being diagnosed as having testicular cancer at the age of 17 . |
| 28 | TODDLER Michael Gater has fought his way back to health after being seriously injured in a road accident . |
| 29 | He went by jeep and on his way back to Brigade H.Q he ran over a German mine and was killed . ’ |
| 30 | Not that Patten was alone in lying his way back to power . |