Example sentences of "back to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reception and speeches are scheduled for exactly one hour before the main participants are escorted back to their separate cells . |
| 2 | Then they went back to their separate homes , to their men , trying to balance the love and the hate in their hearts . |
| 3 | They had n't found anything , and had gone back to their usual haunts . |
| 4 | Scum back to their usual tricks , outplayed for 80mins at Everton yet scab a 1–0 win . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 6 | Thus the French were here driven back to their defensive fortifications but no farther . |
| 7 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 8 | Initially , a majority of these reluctant long-distance movers commute back to their metropolitan jobs , but in the longer term many take up more local jobs — a feature that has grown as employment too has decentralized ( Herington , 1984 ; Congdon and Champion , 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 10 | Semi-proletarianisation is closely linked to temporary intra-rural migration , as numbers of peasants move to a particular area for seasonal work and then move back to their small plots of land or on to another area , where a different crop has reached the planting or harvesting stage . |
| 11 | A substantial proportion can be referred back to their general practitioners once a thorough assessment has been carried out . |
| 12 | But most of them are keeping their options open , sending part of the family back to their traditional shambas or plots , but keeping some people in the city . |
| 13 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 14 | Stories about the illegal capture and sale of wild animals do n't usually have happy endings , and so no wonder there was much celebration when 10 wild-caught orang-utans smuggled into Taiwan and destined for the pet trade were confiscated by Taiwanese officials and sent back to their Indonesian homeland for rehabilitation . |
| 15 | During this period it is essential that all the staff 's normal duties are covered for them , nothing is more likely to prevent successful training than constant telephone interruptions and the need for the staff to get back to their normal work . |
| 16 | The ranch , the children , all had snapped back to their normal time . |
| 17 | Some have adapted , with commendable ease , back to their ancestral profession , and sell fruit from market barrows . |
| 18 | And then the fraught silence would modulate into conciliatory monosyllable , and back to their peaceful co-existence . |
| 19 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 20 | The Bewick Swans will leave Slimbridge to fly back to their Russian breeding grounds next March . |
| 21 | In vitro analyses have shown that the effect of these mutations on CytR repression is indirect and can be traced back to their inhibitory effect on DNA binding of cAMP-CRP ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | Only by getting back to their male roots can these over-complex men become better lovers , fathers and friends . |
| 23 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 24 | back to their private inlet , |
| 25 | That 's all she says , then goes back to their private party . |
| 26 | Disgusted , Douglas shouted that there were plenty of trees on the village green to hang all these , and ordered the sad crew to be herded back to their burning homes . |
| 27 | Soldiers from the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) , Israel 's proxy militia which policed the zone , used tanks and heavy machine guns to force the deportees back to their makeshift camp . |
| 28 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 29 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 30 | Her eyes were back to their natural shade of flint . |