Example sentences of "[to-vb] back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her first instinct had been to creep back to the familiar haven of her room , but now Chesarynth could n't face its bright emptiness . |
| 2 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 3 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm sorry to come back to the central overheads er again , but erm it , considering that the other income largely related to ninety one , I 'm a little unclear why the central costs went down , I ca n't believe there 's been any salary cuts at |
| 5 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 6 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 7 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 8 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 9 | I have no residual obligation to come back to the same market stall next week . |
| 10 | Ready to come back to the unreal world ? ’ |
| 11 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |
| 12 | Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless . |
| 13 | If a pump is not already in use , clearly an extension cable , with a weatherproof connector , will be required to reach back to the nearest electric point . |
| 14 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
| 15 | There is a strong argument er for us to revert back to the previous legal state of affairs in which the anonymity was preserved both of the complainant and of the defendant . |
| 16 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 17 | He told the major he feared that in retiring to the palace he was imprisoning himself and would never be able to escape back to the real world . |
| 18 | They had forgotten to lock up , ever eager to hurry back to the endless rounds of torturing and giggling that are the happy lot of a sadistic underling . |
| 19 | This ensures that they would not be prepared to renegotiate back to the original agreement . |
| 20 | If the whole group has to make its decision through verbal discussion it is often better to first present the issue or problem to small groups , then ask each to report back to the whole group . |
| 21 | erm Students will be asked to report back to the next erm sub-committee |
| 22 | In the 1987 budget , a " carryback " was introduced for BES investors , enabling them to carry back to the previous tax year relief on up to 15,000 invested . |
| 23 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 24 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 25 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 26 | ( In order to analyse this , we need to go back to the general model with . ) |
| 27 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 28 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 29 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 30 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |