Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since May was seventy-two when his book was published , it is clear that many of his recipes must date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth 1st . |
| 2 | Then Rachel would flit back along the alleyways to Richmond Palace . ’ |
| 3 | Interviews will ascertain , for both groups of firms , their clients ( B ) and will then trace back through the clients the former suppliers ( C ) . |
| 4 | You 've got to watch that you see , did it revolve back on the children . |
| 5 | He heard the girl run back down the steps and her footsteps faded in the distance . |
| 6 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |
| 7 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 8 | Do n't lean back on the chairs . |
| 9 | He 'd stand in the doorway and watch Nathan tinkering with his bike and then , when Nathan looked round , he 'd step back into the shadows . |
| 10 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 11 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 12 | The captain 's ‘ Let's go back to the butts , gentlemen ’ is the signal to start a further two hours of shooting . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't go back to the horses again ? ’ |
| 14 | She could go back to the Rosenblooms , to the big house outside Glasgow where she had lived as one of the family for twelve years . |
| 15 | She would go back to the lodgings , lie down on the lumpy bed and rest , and try again tomorrow . |
| 16 | For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each . |
| 17 | I hope that Sibbald and colleagues will go back to the practices in their survey to examine this important issue and to explain the uneven distribution of counsellors working in general practice . |
| 18 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 19 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 20 | Then if the crowds return we can go back to the salaries we deserve ’ |
| 21 | Let's go back to the terrorists just er just just briefly , Clare whatever you say , that 's a p potent picture and it was a deliberate photo opportunity . |
| 22 | ‘ If you hate it all so much , why do n't you go back to the bogs ? ’ was his retort . |
| 23 | Later , when Anne was in bed , Marilla said to her brother , ‘ She must go back to the children 's home tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
| 25 | ‘ All right , let's go back to the events in the Market Square . |
| 26 | At the same time , I 'm elated and I can go back to the vices I did have , ’ said Mr Tyson . |
| 27 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 28 | You could , you could go back on the Permitabs if you want . |
| 29 | I think we should go back by the paths . |
| 30 | ‘ Now we have lost the horses we may as well go back by the paths . ’ |