Example sentences of "back to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 2 | The lithe vessel left a white wake that stretched all the way back to the long iron and glass walkway of the railway terminal , a thin cord of foam linking the crowded paddle-steamer to a solid world of steam trains , corner shops , and utility furniture . |
| 3 | On knitting back to the right hand side , the loops into fully formed stitches , as this is a repeated row . |
| 4 | Impact You thin from this position because you are trying to transfer all your weight back to the right side at impact . |
| 5 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 6 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 7 | THE Harvest Ministers are back to the live front with two major gigs in the coming weeks . |
| 8 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |
| 9 | The emphasis could well be changed once again , and may be switched back to the private sector , but in a new and different form — especially given the fact that an Urban Development Corporation was designated in Sheffield in March 1988 . |
| 10 | Whilst the Conservative government was delighted to have sold back to the private sector one of its most difficult privatisation candidates , the impact of recent changes in the car industry have yet to be fully assessed . |
| 11 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 12 | Back to the Peruvian border . |
| 13 | As Elcock ( 1986 , Chapter 9 ) points out , town and country , planning can be traced back to the Victorian era when enlightened industrialists sought to improve areas such as Bournville in Birmingham and Saltaire in West Yorkshire . |
| 14 | The Royal Theatre 's modest exterior belies the gorgeously decorated auditorium — like a trip back to the Victorian heyday of Theatre . |
| 15 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 16 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 17 | The power of the pope to depose an unsatisfactory emperor goes back to the Dictatus Pape of Gregory VII — a power which Innocent preferred to see as a right to inspect , approve and crown , but there is little doubt that it was important in the papal moral armoury . |
| 18 | Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) . |
| 19 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 20 | The crowd faded , and he turned his attention back to the unconscious man at his feet . |
| 21 | Most were turning back to the western shore , to life but certain capture . |
| 22 | And just selfish enough to demand that momma bird flies back to the bloody nest — surely to God not tonight , you ca n't do this to me , Lucy , I 'm going to crack with all this nothing . |
| 23 | Or survivals at the level of colour : liking for flat and intense colours , local earth and vegetable dyes , which may go all the way back to the ancient textile traditions such as that of the Paracas culture in Peru . |
| 24 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 25 | Back to the straight line . |
| 26 | After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ? |
| 27 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 28 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 29 | The subject of this exasperated thought sent him a look of enquiry , bringing him back to the present debate . |
| 30 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |