Example sentences of "back to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I shall come back to them at the end of this chapter , having reviewed the empirical evidence .
2 They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’
3 This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand .
4 That has been contradicted by the hon. Member for South Shields ( Dr. Clark ) , who has said that he would take money from British farmers with one hand and give part of it back to them with the other .
5 Erm I was sent a booklet from the D S S asking for various financial details , with the instructions that if I did n't complete the booklet and send it back to them to the D S S , my benefits would stop .
6 Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart .
7 It is a relief to turn back to something with the flavour of originality , an evocation of a truly pastoral summer dish , half fruit fool , half syllabub .
8 Hirsch is here defiantly looking back to something like the spirit which , in England , inspired the Newbolt Report and Scrutiny in its heyday , and which no doubt still evokes a sympathetic response in teachers on both sides of the Atlantic .
9 When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month !
10 She wrapped up the clogs and gave them back to me with the instruction that I was only to wear the shoes when I came to call .
11 A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed .
12 You just get on with it and come back to me in the morning . ’
13 Then we come back to me in the studio and I say , ‘ The film you have just seen was an attempt to blah blah blah .
14 He 's had his meaningless little flings before — but he always comes back to me in the end .
15 These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery .
16 Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley .
17 He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air .
18 " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow .
19 Again Colm went two up at the tenth but Michael got it back to one at the 12 a birdie at the 14 brought the lead back to two up .
20 And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind .
21 He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines .
22 ( d ) Joan Ruddock , then chairperson of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , heard her telephone conversation being played back to her at the end of a call .
23 I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation .
24 The Soviets fed some disinformation back to us about the meetings with ‘ Nikolai ’ , hinting that Mills was working for them and using the meetings to pass information across . ’
25 They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’
26 Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods .
27 Now I mean I bring it back to you on the agenda for two reasons .
28 The other point is I gave you an undertaking yesterday to come back to you on the reschedule of the programme in respect of items that have fell of the agenda during the course of the week .
29 You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one .
30 There , they would check it off and whoosh it back to you with the customer 's change and the docket stamped .
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