Example sentences of "back to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results .
2 Derbyshire made no secret of their doubts about the ability of West Indian fast bowler Ian Bishop to make it back to the top in county cricket this season after 18 months plagues by career-threatening back problems .
3 The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form .
4 Preston drove back to the cottage in a state of high nervous excitement but with some serious reservations .
5 I returned to the ratlines while we made an arc inshore and back to the north in 50 – 60ft ( 15 – 18m ) of water .
6 The sub-committee reported back to the Council in July 1969 that within its Charter , or minor modifications of it , changes should be possible with a result that a college , ‘ as it reaches an appropriate state of excellence , should be subject only to that minimum of control by Council consistent with the duties imposed by its Charter ’ .
7 Greg tried to switch his mind back to the problem in hand .
8 In other words , to refer back to the discussion in the previous section , an understanding of theory is needed for evaluation .
9 This time he traced it back to the servant in the bedroom — he blocked out or refused to remember her name — a cold witch , he decided , a witch who would find no satiation in this world , maybe even a spirit brought back to test and ruin those who had intercourse with her .
10 The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat .
11 ‘ I notice that you do n't go back to the village in the afternoon . ’
12 With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it .
13 Ashley 's concentration wavered and her thoughts travelled back to the man in the car .
14 Anything which is n't identified beyond doubt , will go back to the man in whose house it was found .
15 The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways .
16 The juggernaut passed uneventfully down the country lanes back to the hole in space and time .
17 Blake agreed with his companion , and beat a hasty retreat back to the hole in time .
18 He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time .
19 If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline .
20 During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ?
21 Now , back to the survey in detail .
22 Once all internal associations are achieved and the geometry fixed ( ie the assembly becomes a group of completed parts ) , the external associations can be re-assigned back to the assembly in order to reduce the complexity of the computational procedures .
23 Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van .
24 It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field .
25 He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions .
26 The helicopter and the keys to the private villa were promptly removed ; Branson rode back to the airport in a taxi .
27 Let's go back to the bungalow in the cool for a bit .
28 Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks .
29 She waved and I did a U-turn — taxis are ace at that — and headed back to the nightmare in the bathroom .
30 Nails replied with some very bad language , which somewhat alienated Shirl , and they walked back to the police-car in silence , and Nails was locked in the back .
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