Example sentences of "back to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather spend a short time on several drills and come back to them another day , than a long . |
| 2 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 3 | The trust agreed to renovate the houses and sell them back to their former owners for the cost of the work and the trust 's expenses , less the value of grants obtained . |
| 4 | THOMSON Regional Newspapers is selling six of its stable of 40 free newspapers back to their former owner Keith Barwell . |
| 5 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 6 | At the close of the service , the processions reformed behind their bands and banners ( there were ten of them that day ) and wound their way back to their own church or chapel for lunch and sports . |
| 7 | These reivers would round up cattle and horses and drive them back to their own lands . |
| 8 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 9 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 10 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 11 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 12 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 13 | The fresh toned singing of such favourites as Alouette , A-roving and the Skye Boat Song must have taken many of the audience back to their own school days . |
| 14 | Now Buxtehude is something of a Mecca for other traffic planners paying tribute to what has been achieved and taking the Verkehrsberuhigung message back to their own communities . |
| 15 | It is an agreement to which our European partners were happy to sign up , and they have gone back to their own countries to celebrate . |
| 16 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 17 | Some escaped the massacre and tried to make their way back to their own districts . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 19 | The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin , and drive them back to their own territories . |
| 20 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 21 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 22 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 23 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 24 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 25 | Even so , they find that their skills do enable them to get children back to their own homes , although this as yet is a secondary role . |
| 26 | They raid the nest , collect the pupae and carry them back to their own colony . |
| 27 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 28 | One comes back to what most people are agreed on : in the short term the simplest , cheapest , quickest and most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to use energy more efficiently , in both homes and factories . |
| 29 | She deposited the tray on the desk , then took her own tea and a small piece of cake back to her former post , slotted a new tape into the machine for the next instalment of the story and settled down to enjoy the rest of the afternoon in peace . |
| 30 | Sara went back to her own part of the house . |