Example sentences of "and [verb] back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | ‘ To watch the situation and report back to that stone-faced hypocritical bastard , Philip IV of France . |
| 4 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 5 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 6 | Porters South is a former three-storey beer-bottling plant , built in brick and dating back to 1904 . |
| 7 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 8 | The 36 would-be refugees — including Serbians , Croatians and Bosnians — were refused asylum in Britain and deported back to other countries , mainly Belgium and Germany , under the so-called ‘ safe third country ’ rule . |
| 9 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 10 | The Centre does nothing magical , nothing unscientific , nothing really extraordinary , it merely helps you to start filtering off the oil and getting back to that crystal clear water . |
| 11 | Ipswich are out to sharpen up in a big way tomorrow and get back to winning ways after a draw and two defeats in the league following the FA Cup fifth round home 4–0 win over Grimsby . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know what they gave Rocky but he came round within 24 hours and seems back to normal now , ’ said Mr Taylor . |
| 13 | The opening of the novel is then the story of his ‘ death ’ : the time between ‘ dying ’ and coming back to full consciousness , a period of uncertain length , but possibly covering two years or more . |
| 14 | He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth . |
| 15 | Senna , clearly struggling , was then passed also by Alesi and Brundle and fell back to sixth before retiring after 17 laps . |
| 16 | D5 glows green and changes back to red when the period is up . |
| 17 | IVORY & SIME , the Edinburgh fund manager , has launched a new investment trust which it hopes will arrest the trend towards institutional ownership of investment trusts and switch back to individual ownership . |
| 18 | We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under . |
| 19 | He laughed abruptly and went back to this wine cup . |
| 20 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 21 | For the moment he left the subject there , and went back to another line of questioning . |
| 22 | If you get stuck , leave a blank and come back to that section later . |
| 23 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 24 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |